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By John Stanton

(June 22, 2017)He led what many would call a charmed life.The son of a prominent Cleveland businessman, he played hockey at Harvard, served in theU.S. Navy, and started down the road to a life in banking. Then came a day when he was struck by a disease called retinitis pigmentosa.By the time he was 30 years old, Gordon Gund was blind.

To the casual observer, Gunds blindness has hardly slowed him down. He was a successful businessman with a summer home on Nantucket. He raised a family. He owned several sports teams, including the Cleveland Cavaliers. Through it all he has fought to find a cure for the disease that took his sight.

Gordon is past the point of no return with his blindness, filmmaker Tom Scott said. But it is almost impossible to stop his passion for finding a cure.

Gund is the subject of Scotts 20-minute documentary profile,The Illumination. The film will play at the Nantucket Film Festival Friday at 4:45 p.m. at the Dreamland Theater. It will be followed by a conversation between Gordon Gund, his wifeLulie and Scott.

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