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

Image result for polly thompson and helen kellerIn 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

Image result for polly thompson and helen keller


My published books:

See my published books

BACK TO HOME PAGE


  1. https://www.mainstreetfinebooks.com/pages/books/42874/helen-keller-polly-thomson/autograph-letter-signed