Etta B. Degering (1898–1996)

Thomas Gallaudet was a young man of high ambitions, but of weak health. After graduating from college. He tried for professions, but had to drop out of them. Then one day, while watching his younger brothers and sisters at play, he noticed a small girl looking on, but taking no part. She was deaf. Thomas invented a game that helped her for the first time in her life to understand that things have names.From that day until the end of his life Thomas Gallaudet devoted his energies to helping the deaf to cope and to removing the barriers between the handicapped and the normal.… (meer)

You have heard of the Mayflower in the sturdy pilgrims who sailed in the to settle in a new land. But what of the Mayflower's captain, was responsible for ship, crew, and supercargo? What kind of person would it take to slip religious refugees out from under the noses of the king's watchmen and sale with them to a new and uncharted coast?In this book, you learn how Christopher Jones was fatherless at eight yet master of his own ship at 18. You learn of his family––his first and second wives and his children; you learn, from the's viewpoint, about his trans–Atlantic voyage; you learn what happened to him after the historic landing in 1620.… (meer)