A Legacy in Story
Akron Stories collects, preserves, and celebrates the stories of Akron’s rubber workers and their descendants. The stories have been organized into the following categories:
Akron Life • History • The Work • Products • People & Identity
Deaf Workers
Thomas Kot is the grandson of Philip Alfred Heupel Sr., a 1918 graduate of Gallaudet College in Washington, D.C., which at the time was the only college in the world for the deaf.