Submitted by Sandy Burgess ElizabethAnn Johnson learned about Bay State Council of the Blind from member Rosemary Miller and joined the organization in 2017. She joined because she loves the diversity of the organization and what it brings to people of all backgrounds. As a member of BSCB, ElizabethAnn especially values collaborating/working with others, the … Read more
By Myra Ross | From BayLines Express, May, 2024 Thanks to an e-mail I received from Mary Haroyan and a comprehensive feature story I heard on WAMC Northeast Public radio out of Albany, New York, my husband and I went to the Chicopee Public Library to experience an amazing visiting art exhibit on portraiture through … Read more
By Myra Ross | From BayLines Express, April, 2024 I’ve not been much of a gamer. I have had no interest in roleplay or action games. Several years ago, I purchased some of the Blindfold games. I enjoyed Solitaire, but it’s not a game I would play often. Sudoku was just too hard. Several times … Read more
By Myra Ross | From BayLines Express, March, 2024 Along with Jerry Berrier and Jane Perry, I worked on the handouts for medical establishments about how to support blind patients. They are now on the BSCB website at https://acbofma.org/healthcare-guidelines. Recently I had my initial appointment with a new (to me) primary care physician. My antennas … Read more
by Myra Ross and Cindy Wentz | From BayLines Express, February, 2024 Only one BSCB member contacted me (Myra Ross) with a health-related New Year’s resolution. I added a blurb of my own. From Cindy Wentz: My top resolution for 2024 continues to be physical fitness and overall good health. And it’s the hardest one to … Read more
by David Kingsbury | From BayLines Express, December, 2023 2023 has been a year of notable accomplishments for BSCB, as well as for the Massachusetts blindness community as a whole. I said it at our Spring Convention and I will say it here again: BSCB was the only organization in the Massachusetts blindness community to … Read more
By Jennifer Harnish | From BayLines Express, November, 2023 On March 8, 2023, my daughter Celia and her boyfriend Jasper began their 2,198 mile thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail (A.T.). In A.T. lingo, they were doing a Nobo (Northbound) thru-hike, beginning at Springer Mountain in Georgia with the goal of ending at the top of … Read more
By Sharon Strzalkowski | From BayLines Express, October 2023 With some trepidation, I decided a couple of months ago to fly for the first time since before the pandemic. I wanted to go to a blindness retreat called Candle in the Window. My hesitation was not concerning Covid but, rather, how much help I would … Read more
By Nona Haroyan | From BayLines Express, September, 2023 This summer I tried kayaking for the first time. How hard could it be? Sit in a little boat with an experienced guide and paddle around a lake. Well to my complete disgust, I learned pretty quickly, that I had deluded myself into thinking that I … Read more
By Myra Ross | From BayLines Express, August, 2023 This article comes from my memories and a few minutes of research. It is not an exhaustive history of NLS. “This book is continued on the other side of this record.” It was time to turn the record over on the big, heavy, gray, Talking Book … Read more