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See the Miracle Worker performed at Helen Keller’s Ivy Green

Your annual June reminder if you’re anywhere near Tuscumbia in northwest Alabama….

Every summer at Ivy Green, the birthplace of the amazing author, speaker and writer Helen Keller, there is a professional outdoor production of The Miracle Worker, William Gibson’s drama about Keller’s early life and relationship with her teacher, Annie Sullivan.

This year the performance dates are June 4 through July 10, 2010, and tickets are $10 reserved seating and $8.00 general admission.

You may also want to visit during the Helen Keller Festival June 21-27, 2010 at Spring Park in Tuscumbia;  it’s a more city-wide, general event with live music, arts, food, sports and shopping specials.

The Festival is on Facebook, on Twitter and there are cool photos on Flickr as well.

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Helen Keller’s story: the “Miracle Worker” at Ivy Green

Helen Keller water pump at Ivy Green, Tuscumbia, Alabama (photo by Sheila Scarborough)There are only a few days left to see it, if you’re near Tuscumbia in northwest Alabama before July 11….

Every summer at Ivy Green, the birthplace of the amazing author, speaker and writer Helen Keller, there is a professional outdoor production of The Miracle Worker, William Gibson’s drama about Keller’s early life and relationship with her teacher, Annie Sullivan.

For those unfamiliar with the story, Ms. Sullivan (almost blind herself) had a “tough row to hoe” in the Keller household as she tried to teach a spoiled, deaf, blind, mute but brilliant Helen that language could be expressed by hand gestures, or sign language.

To see the two-hour play on the grounds of Helen’s own house is a special experience.

Like a knucklehead, I forgot to put up a post in time to also tell you about Tuscumbia’s annual Helen Keller Festival held in late June, but get it on your calendar for next year.

The state’s tourism Web site has more ideas for northern Alabama travel with kids.