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Macy, Anne Sullivan

(Encyclopedia) Macy, Anne Sullivan, 1866–1936, American educator, friend and teacher of Helen Keller, b. Feeding Hills, Mass. Placed in Tewksbury almshouse (1876), she was later admitted (1880) to…

Perkins School for the Blind

(Encyclopedia) Perkins School for the Blind, at Watertown, Mass.; chartered 1829, opened 1832 in South Boston as the New England Asylum for the Blind, with Samuel G. Howe as its director; moved 1912…

Keller, Helen Adams

(Encyclopedia) Keller, Helen Adams, 1880–1968, American author and lecturer, blind and deaf from an undiagnosed illness at the age of two, b. Tuscumbia, Ala. In 1887 she was put under the charge of…

Straus

(Encyclopedia) StrausStrausstrous [key], family of American merchants, public officials, and philanthropists. Isidor Straus, 1845–1912, b. Rhenish Bavaria, emigrated (1854) with his brothers to the…

Macy's parade

The Question: When was the first Macy's Parade? The Answer: The first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade took place in Manhattan in 1924. Helium…

Macy Gray

The Id Epic The party that started on Macy Gray's Grammy-winning 1999 debut disc, On How Life Is, is still very much in session on the Freudian-titled follow-up The Id. There's a house feel…

Macy Gray Biography

Macy Graymusician Although she was exposed to a variety of music throughout her childhood, both listening to her parents' vast record collection and studying classical piano, it wasn't until…

William H. Macy

The reliable actor and sometimes writer-producer William H. Macy worked steadily on stage and screen for more than 15 years before breaking out in the Coen brothers' 1996 movie Fargo (with Frances…

William H. Macy Biography

William H. MacyactorBorn: 3/13/1950Birthplace: Miami, Florida Macy's acting career began somewhat inauspiciously doing voice-overs for commercials. He had trained under David Mamet at Goddard…