The latest Speaking Out for the Blind podcast focuses on how the LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired is expanding independent travel in the San Francisco Bay Area. The agency’s brand-new Transit Orientation Guides help riders navigate the Bay Area’s complicated transit routes. Frank Welte, staff member with the LightHouse’s Access to Information Services department, joins the show to talk about the new guides and some of the LightHouse’s additional services.

Get your free Transit Route Orientation Guide today, or request free Orientation training to help you make the best use of these guides, by contacting Frank Welte at 415-694-7363, or
fwelte@lighthouse-sf.org.

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Bill Barker’s Braille Radio Reading Room – September 2013

10/21/2013 Greg Kehret

A program featuring contemporary stories behind the front pages, some thought provoking articles and occasional poems, plays or short stories.

Today our theme is two-fold: Seasonal and Doing Things With A Passion

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Hope Sinclair Interview, August 6 2012, Part 2 of 2

09/05/2013 Greg Kehret

The long anticipated continuation to Part 1.

Though thousands of people have enjoyed staying at the LightHouse’s Enchanted Hills Camp since we acquired it in 1950, one woman has had a particularly special lifelong relationship with our property. Hope Sinclair’s father bought the land in 1927 and operated a boy’s camp there for more than 20 years. Hope herself spent much of her girlhood at camp in the 1930′s and 1940′s and developed a detailed love for the nature and history of the place.

In 2012 the LightHouse recorded a lengthy oral history about the camp and we intend to host the interview permanently on this site.

Sitting in the same living room her family once inhabited, Hope Sinclair spoke for nearly three hours with LightHouse CEO Bryan Bashin, Camp Director Tony Fletcher and Development Director Jennifer Sachs. Those who wish to learn in detail from the woman with the best 80 years of living memory of our site will enjoy the interview.

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Bill Barker’s Braille Radio Reading Room – August 2013

08/13/2013 Greg Kehret

A program featuring contemporary stories behind the front pages, some thought provoking articles and occasional poems, plays or short stories.

“Working at it with a Passion” is our theme this time.

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LightHouse Podcasts

Hope Sinclair Interview, August 6 2012, Part 1 of 2

07/26/2013 Greg Kehret

Though thousands of people have enjoyed staying at the LightHouse’s Enchanted Hills Camp since we acquired it in 1950, one woman has had a particularly special lifelong relationship with our property. Hope Sinclair’s father bought the land in 1927 and operated a boy’s camp there for more than 20 years. Hope herself spent much of her girlhood at camp in the 1930’s and 1940’s and developed a detailed love for the nature and history of the place.

In 2012 the LightHouse recorded a lengthy oral history about the camp and we intend to host the interview permanently on this site.