I am new to posting here but have read this thread with great interest as the story seems VERY far fetched to me. I did a quick search for Barbara Nelson and I found a link to a workshop for High School English Teachers from 2004 and she is listed as one of the contributors. I realize that it is a common name and it may be a different person. However, the interesting part to me is that the workshop was funded by the Annenberg Corp. This may all be simply a coincidence but I thought that I would throw it out for comments. (see pg 8 - contributors - the bio does say that she has been in Virginia for 15 years so it may not be the same person)
http://www.learner.org/workshops/hswriting/support/intro.pdf
According to the information in the article she spent 40 years in Hawaii and returned to N.Y. state in the 21st century. She did take a course in HI and I found that information last night on a website dedicated to programs for teachers in HI. Right at the moment I cannot remember the year she took the course but it was shortly after the inception of the course in HI and she is listed as a teacher at Punahou. The story has already fallen apart with regard to her memory of the day Jr was born and the fact that she is following the “official storyline” by mentioning that when Obama Sr returned to the island in 1971 it was the first time he had seen Jr in eight years. We already know that Ann and Jr were in WA state before the end of August 1961 and Obama Sr left HI in June 1962. There was no eight years except in the “official story” and with those who failed to investigate.