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ACHS Spring Meeting features new VSDB history movie | The News Leader | newsleader.com
hen VSDB graduate Faithlyn Robinson learned her old dorm, Carter Hall, was to be torn done to clear the way for a major expansion and renovation of the 173-year-old school, she decided to take some photos.
Then, she took some more.
"I wanted to take pictures of Carter Hall," Robinson said. "While I was taking pictures, I thought to myself, 'Why not take pictures of all the buildings?' As I was doing that, I wondered to myself, 'Who are the people associated with the names on the buildings?'"
The end result was a 60 minute documentary called VSDB History. The Augusta County Historical Society is offering a sneak peak on Sunday, at its spring meeting at the school, the first of its kind in the nation.
Also Sunday, the society and the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind have invited visitors are also invited to tour the school's museum with the VSDB Deaf Alumni.
The school's story, captured in both Robinson's documentary and at the school's museum, reflects the growing enlightenment of a maturing American society that came to believe that deaf and blind people deserved an education equal to everyone else.
In Virginia, that started in 1838, when the General Assembly voted to open the Staunton school.
The idea of educating deaf and blind students at the same institution was also a new idea to Americans, and the idea of integrating their education into one school was groundbreaking.
The two buildings open for Sunday's program, Main Hall (1846) and Chapel (1854) are listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places. During the Civil War the school was used as a hospital for wounded and sick soldiers.
Robinson, the creator of the VSDB movie being previewed at the society's meeting, was born in Jamaica and lost her hearing when she was a week old due to a high fever. She came to VSDB when she was 12 years old and graduated in 1988. She earned a degree from Gallaudet University in 1992 and then went on to study and graduate from the Art Institute in Atlanta. In 2008 she returned to VSDB to teach photography to the students.
hen VSDB graduate Faithlyn Robinson learned her old dorm, Carter Hall, was to be torn done to clear the way for a major expansion and renovation of the 173-year-old school, she decided to take some photos.
Then, she took some more.
"I wanted to take pictures of Carter Hall," Robinson said. "While I was taking pictures, I thought to myself, 'Why not take pictures of all the buildings?' As I was doing that, I wondered to myself, 'Who are the people associated with the names on the buildings?'"
The end result was a 60 minute documentary called VSDB History. The Augusta County Historical Society is offering a sneak peak on Sunday, at its spring meeting at the school, the first of its kind in the nation.
Also Sunday, the society and the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind have invited visitors are also invited to tour the school's museum with the VSDB Deaf Alumni.
The school's story, captured in both Robinson's documentary and at the school's museum, reflects the growing enlightenment of a maturing American society that came to believe that deaf and blind people deserved an education equal to everyone else.
In Virginia, that started in 1838, when the General Assembly voted to open the Staunton school.
The idea of educating deaf and blind students at the same institution was also a new idea to Americans, and the idea of integrating their education into one school was groundbreaking.
The two buildings open for Sunday's program, Main Hall (1846) and Chapel (1854) are listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places. During the Civil War the school was used as a hospital for wounded and sick soldiers.
Robinson, the creator of the VSDB movie being previewed at the society's meeting, was born in Jamaica and lost her hearing when she was a week old due to a high fever. She came to VSDB when she was 12 years old and graduated in 1988. She earned a degree from Gallaudet University in 1992 and then went on to study and graduate from the Art Institute in Atlanta. In 2008 she returned to VSDB to teach photography to the students.