Children hunt for eggs that beep at Perkins School

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http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/03/26/children-hunt-for-eggs-that-beep-perkins-school/hnviEutgDtq4jJzk9AJElL/story.html



Mike Williams, left, of Brookline, and his daughter Mila admired a beeping egg.

Children hunt for eggs that beep at Perkins School
By Nicole Fleming Globe Correspondent March 26, 2016

WATERTOWN — Amber Bobnar’s son was born blind, and she was terrified. But, just before Easter a decade ago, she went online and found an organization in Hawaii that put on an egg hunt for blind children with beeping eggs.

“Something about that made me say, ‘If there are people out there that make eggs beep for blind kids, we’re going to be OK,’ ” said Bobnar, who later moved from Hawaii to Watertown so that her son Ivan, now 10, could attend Perkins School for the Blind.

She brought the beeping egg hunt with them. More than 200 people gathered Saturday morning in the playground at the Perkins lower campus, which was dotted with hundreds of colorful beeping eggs and candy-filled plastic eggs.

Perkins has hosted an annual Easter egg hunt with beeping eggs for visually impaired children for the past five years. The renowned special education school was established in 1829 and has about 200 preschool through high school students with some visual impairment and often a mix of other disabilities.

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Perkins' School web site: http://www.perkins.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perkins_School_for_the_Blind

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I moved to Boston in the early 70's, and proceeded detoxinhg from almost 10 years in Uncle Sam's Army. Had a job, an apartment south of Beantown and since my mom was coming to Boston in a few months I was looking for furniture.

There's was this huge warehouse up in Woburn that had all sorts of stuff. I found an oak dining room set that was painted with both red and black paint. I had scrapped off the paint at a few spots and could see this was all quarter cross-cut oak. The seat backs were all punched out. I bought that set for $125.

I found someone on the south shore that would remove the old paint and make it look beautiful. The Perkins School replaced the caning on the punched out seat backs.