04.01.01 Hein’s Castle
Clip Title: Finding Dr. Hein. First clip of 4th chapter (09:02 m. - 2:57:52 h.)
This clip is posted in gratitude to Joyanne Rasmus Burdett and Marlon “Lon” Kuntze, my former CSDFremont colleagues. They, in 1992, wrote letters for my application to the Laurent Clerc Cultural Fund maintained by the GUAA. It was to apply for a grant to fund my flight to Europe to visit sites of deaf history behind the myth. I look back with fondness at the memory of working with Joyanne and Lon, along with many others at CSDF. Joyanne in the museum/library discussing deaf/CSD history and children books. Lon, as the Bi-Bi coordinator, elaborating on the development of Deaf Studies courses/curriculum which I taught in the HS dept. Thank you, you two.
I have never discussed in this blog on why I include a list of gratitudes. Maybe there is no need but it feels right that I do. I am still in “shock/awe” that this story got created - a mythology! “never heard” ever before - and it might continue for the rest of my life. I am grateful for everything that had crossed my life-path contributing to the growth of this myth. The books and other printed materials, visiting “sacred” places, acquiring “sacred” deaf artifacts, the people who lent support of different kinds, and _____________. I surmise some people will find the listing of so many people to thank to something odd, I don’t know, but it just feel right to thank them “publicly”.
About the length of this clip - 9 minutes. I aim to keep each clip to around 5 minutes. That is one of the reasons why I will need to revise some clips That is why the seemingly unnecessary last appendage of three clusters of two digits for each clip, 04.01.02. I apologize for such a long clip, taxing your attention.
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Deaf history commentary: As to how the myth naturally evolved in its creation, the duo-chapters: 4 - 5 and 10 - 11 occur somehow simultaneously in deaf history (more on that in other posts - or a book). Doctor Hein is an archetypal character which represents certain people in deaf history - all hearing white men who wrote about the educability of deaf people in the 15th and 16th centuries: Rudolph Agricola, Girolamo Cardano to name a few. Click on them to to go to wiki-info on them.
Bibliography:
Bender, Scouten, Lane, and more to be added. (Decided to add a new page above - biblio, so I dont have to type out the whole citation. Making a book in ASL is fun here.)