Eleven years ago, at 73, Dr. Hilary Connor, “an old pediatrician” and a former assistant to the U.S. surgeon general, completely lost his eyesight in 48 hours following an inflammation of the artery that supplies blood to the optic nerve.
Connor decided to learn Braille and soon heard about the Maryland State Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped in Mount Vernon, which offered books on tape and was within walking distance from his South Baltimore neighborhood. On his first visit, he met Mary Kuforiji, a library regular who had been blind since birth, by literally bumping into her then-4-year-old daughter Olufisayo at a sculpture exhibition. Ever since, he?s been a mainstay in the five-story building on Park Avenue, where both he and Mary volunteer several times a week.
