This garden, planted in the 1990s, adds to ForSight Vision's Spahn Avenue campus. "All I was thinking of was a few tomato plants," the center's president, Bill Rhinesmith, joked at the garden's dedication.(See below for details.) Interesting information on the center's first 75 years has been collected into a booklet written by Luther Sowers and available at no cost at Forsight Vision, 1380 Spahn Ave., York, 845-3889, www.forsight.org. Background post: York County lawmaker fought to aid the blind.
Did you know?
- That the charter for ForSight Vision, formerly the York County Blind Center, was approved by Judge Ray P. Sherwood, who was blind in his later years?
- In a typical year - 1952 - workers at the blind center made 568 brooms and repaired 391 chairs.
- In 1967 - way early in the computer age - a blind worker in the center's workshop temporarily left to take a course in computer programming.
- The center started radio broadcasts in 1976 via a sub-channel of WGCB-FM. The center handed out special receivers, and volunteers read the local newspaper and books... .
