Susan Barry was born cross-eyed. As a young child, she had three surgeries on her eyes that uncrossed them. But as she told us in Part One of her interview, it wasn't until she was in college that Barry learned she didn't see the world in stereo, the way most of us do. In her book, "Fixing My Gaze", Barry, a Mount Holyoke College professor, describes what the lack of 3-D vision meant as she tried to perform normal adult tasks. Parking a car -- or driving at night -- was difficult.
As an infant, Susan Barry was cross-eyed. And while she was still very young, Barry went through three surgical procedures that uncrossed her eyes -- and, she assumed, corrected her vision. WFCR's Bob Paquette has more.
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick was in Springfield to sign new legislation aimed at restructuring the State's transportation bureaucracy, including the elimination of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. He spoke with WFCR's Helen Barrington about the passage of his package of reforms: transportation, ethics and pension in tough economic times.