In this wide-ranging episode of Remarkable World Commentary, Donna J. Jodhan sits down with longtime advocate, author, and broadcaster Bob Branco for a wide-ranging conversation about growing up blind, building a life of creative independence, and choosing one’s relationship with technology on one’s own terms. Bob traces his path from a sight-saving class in New Bedford, Massachusetts to eight years at the Perkins School for the Blind, where he picked up the orientation and mobility skills, Braille fluency, and quiet confidence that still anchor his daily life, he notes he has been using the same Perkins Brailler for sixty-one years. He talks about what drove him to write My Home Away from Home and As I See It From a Blind Man’s Perspective, the nearly twenty-year run of his Consumer Vision magazine, his columns for Matilda Ziegler and the American Council of the Blind, and the hundreds of episodes he has produced of In Perspective and Sports Roundtable since 2017.
Remarkable World Commentary Episode #82: Interview with Bob Branco, Author, Writer and Publisher
In this wide-ranging episode of Remarkable World Commentary, Donna J. Jodhan sits down with longtime advocate, author, and broadcaster Bob Branco for a wide-ranging conversation about growing up blind, building a life of creative independence, and choosing one’s relationship with technology on one’s own terms. Bob traces his path from a sight-saving class in New Bedford, Massachusetts to eight years at the Perkins School for the Blind, where he picked up the orientation and mobility skills, Braille fluency, and quiet confidence that still anchor his daily life, he notes he has been using the same Perkins Brailler for sixty-one years. He talks about what drove him to write My Home Away from Home and As I See It From a Blind Man’s Perspective, the nearly twenty-year run of his Consumer Vision magazine, his columns for Matilda Ziegler and the American Council of the Blind, and the hundreds of episodes he has produced of In Perspective and Sports Roundtable since 2017.