Etta B. Degering (1898–1996)

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 show more 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. show less

Rebecca Bryan married adventure when she married Daniel Boone. She was the first white woman to stand on the back of the Kentucky River. She had to weave cloth out of nettles, mold, bullets, and load rifles and time of siege. One of her daughters was kidnapped, and she sighed tomahawk raised over her husband's head. But she reared nine children, the six others that were motherless, and lived to see grandchildren and great – grandchildren.

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 show more the deaf to cope and to removing the barriers between the handicapped and the normal. show less

"It was a boy, not a man, who devised the ingenious system of raised bumps for reading and writing used by the visually handicapped. When Louis Braille was almost 4 years old he blinded himself with a sharp awl in his father's harness shop. But the instrument that caused his tragic accident later helped Louis solve the problem of reading.
With his six-dot code, Louis Braille opened the doors of universities and libraries, and made available the trades and professions of a sighted world to show more those who read by touch and see with their fingers." - from the back cover show less