Summary: Fred Bailey grew up blind on a farm in Gallatin, Tennessee — except he didn’t actually know he was blind at first. Through a run in with a teacher, a visit to a doctor, and a confrontation with his father, he learned how to find strength in his limitations. And now he strives to pass on a similar tenacity to children through his after-school program, <a href="http://www.childrenarepeopletn.org/home.aspx" target="_blank">Children Are People</a>. In this episode, Fred shares his story to Nashville poet and rapper <a href="https://www.swrapmusic.com/" target="_blank">Saran Thompson</a>. And then within minutes, Saran takes what he’s heard and transforms it into an original poem. Credits: Editing/co-production by: Tony Gonzalez, Hosting/co-production by: Joshua Moore. Additional Editing assistance: Emily Siner, Blake Farmer, Anita Bugg, and Susannah Felts. Production assistance, recording, and mastering by Luke Wiget. A special thanks to The McJimpsey Center and the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/JSACTN/" target="_blank">Jefferson Street Art Crawl</a> for hosting the event where this audio were recorded on March 25, 2017. The music is by Saran Thompson. Versify is a production of Nashville Public Radio and PRX. Stories and poems are gathered with the help of <a href="http://www.porchtn.org/" target="_blank">The Porch</a>, Nashville’s nonprofit literary center.
