First blind man to use a seeing-eye dog was a Tennessean
By Bill Carey
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May 4, 2023
Here is the Morris Frank and Buddy trading card that TN History for Kids printed a few years ago
(TN State Library and Archives photo)When you see a blind person with a seeing-eye dog, remember that this practice started with a young man from Nashville.
When you see a blind person with a seeing-eye dog, remember that this practice started with a young man from Nashville.
In 1927, Morris Frank was a 20-year-old student at Vanderbilt University and unhappy about his dependency on others to get around. Frank’s father read him an article in the Saturday Evening Post by Dorothy Eustis, an...
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