BURIED TOGETHER
Partner Helen Keller, buried together
Queer Places:
Arcan Ridge, 163 Redding Rd, Easton, CT 06612, Stati Uniti
Washington National Cathedral, 3101 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016, Stati Uniti
In 1914 this Scottish immigrant Mary Agnes “Polly” Thomson (1855 – March 21, 1960) was hired as housekeeper to deaf-blind
author, lecturer and activist Helen Keller; she trained to become
Keller's private secretary, and together with Keller's teacher and
confidante Anne Sullivan the trio were nicknamed the "Three Musketeers";
when Sullivan died in 1936, Thomson filled Sullivan's role as constant
companion as well; upon Keller's death in 1968, she was buried alongside
Sullivan and Thomson at the Washington National Cathedral.
Helen Keller and Polly by Rollie McKenna
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