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Tuesday, November 09, 2004
Creative Pursuits For People With RP
Three people with retinitis pigmentosa have recently featured in the news because of their creative work or hobbies.
Villette Neil is a Jamaican dressmaker and is featured in a recent article in The Jamaica Observer (The Blind Dressmaker', 8 November 2004).
Ray Howard is a 73-year-old retiree who plays classical music at a hospice in Colorado, USA, twice a week:
Harold Riley, who has Usher Syndrome, continues woodworking, making model trains and cars:
Villette Neil is a Jamaican dressmaker and is featured in a recent article in The Jamaica Observer (The Blind Dressmaker', 8 November 2004).
Ray Howard is a 73-year-old retiree who plays classical music at a hospice in Colorado, USA, twice a week:
Ray had given up the guitar for 15 years, too busy earning a living. In 1993, he took up the instrument again. "I picked it up during the O.J. trial because I was so frustrated with the way it was going," Ray said. "I couldn't watch it anymore."
So he found his "dream guitar," a Kohno, and began learning classical guitar through talking books and tapes. Now he listens to classical guitar CDs and knows about 50 songs by heart.
'Volunteer plays notes of comfort' The Greeley Tribune, 1 November 2004.
Harold Riley, who has Usher Syndrome, continues woodworking, making model trains and cars:
"I don't think of myself as more special than anyone else who is deaf and blind," Riley explained through the help of his wife and interpreter, Donna. "This is who I am, and making toys is what I do."
Riley, 62, acknowledged that he has never heard the excited hum of one of his four table saws as he gets ready to create yet another of his more than 25 wooden designs.
'Man conquers vision loss to create wooden models', The Detroit News, 17 October 2004.
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