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Billy Brackett, 48; Steve Vozzella, 45; and Bryan MacFarlane, 41, were also stalwart members of Maine's community of deaf people who died in the shootings, the educational center said.
The Governor Baxter School for the Deaf (GBSD), formerly known as the Maine School for the Deaf is a public co-educational school that serves the deaf and hard-of-hearing in the State of Maine. It is located on Mackworth Island , an approximately 100-acre (40 ha) island in Falmouth, Maine , USA, adjacent to its border with Portland, Maine .
Maine shootings leave deaf community reeling after 4 of their own are killed Aria Bendix and Katie Reimchen and Minyvonne Burke and David K. Li and Emilie Ikeda Updated October 29, 2023 at 7:02 PM
Among the 18 people killed in the Lewiston, Maine, mass shooting rampage on Oct. 25 were four deaf men, making for what appears to be the worst mass shooting of deaf people in U.S. history.
The deaf communities in the valley developed in some of the 30 villages founded by settlers from Martha's Vineyard. However, it is not clear whether MVSL itself was transmitted, or if the chain was broken and a new sign language was created once a substantial deaf population was established.
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John Brewster Jr. (May 30 or May 31, 1766 – August 13, 1854) [1] was a prolific, Deaf itinerant painter who produced many charming portraits of well-off New England families, especially their children. He lived much of the latter half of his life in Buxton, Maine, USA, recording the faces of much of Maine's elite society of his time.