This article was published in the September 20-26, 1969 issue of TV Guide.
The author is unknown.
It is © 1969 TV Guide, Triangle Publications, Inc.
When the producers of Lassie filmed an episode about a blind youngster, they helped provide a valuable public service at the same time.
Actors in the episode include children from the Braille Institute of America in Los Angeles. They were hired, issued Braille scripts, and made to feel comfortable in the woods. How? Lassie's producers built a "Braille trail" in San Bernardino National Forest.
Following the trail's guide rope, the children find Braille plaques that help them experience nature through their hands and ears. (One, for example, tells children to listen for a woodpecker, and to reach out and feel the woodpecker holes in a tree.)
