Today’s the final day of the conference. Most people are still here, although some are leaving tonight, while others will disperse over the weekend. We’ve been sitting straight through large portions of today, so the main picture will have to be the one in your head, envisioning a rapt audience hanging on the every word of the presenter presently on stage. For the rest of the day, scroll down!

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Michael Reis is enraptured by the video clip with snippets of all of Gallaudet’s presidents (sans EMG and W. Lloyd Johns) shown signing. It was a very interesting clip, and hopefully whoever created it will think about possibly putting it up here or elsewhere for us to view! I’d never seen Percival Hall signing, so that was neat.

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Victor Vodounou is explaining about how Andrew Foster brought wrestling to Africa. No, wait, he’s telling about how Foster introduced football to Africa! No, that’s not right either… Perhaps how Foster introduced America to Africa?

Most likely he’s answering a follow-up question to his interesting presentation on a Black Deaf pioneer who established more than 30 schools all over Africa.

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The Gallaudet University Press and its employees cheerfully visited with conference participants and offered their books at a special discount for registered attendees. It was a good opportunity to look over the latest publications, or consider buying a book that you wanted for some time. It’s interesting to think of the small number of books on Deaf studies and history just a generation or two ago, compared with today. There’s even more books in the pipeline, as we found out during some of the presentations.

That’s it– it’s been a great three days. The next photo essay will be coming to you at the next Deaf history gathering; although I’m not sure when that is, let’s hope it’ll be soon!