The Traveling Wheelchair

By Kenny & Company

Entries for May, 2008

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Moving Wall in Middleborough

Middleborough, MA May 29, 2008 to June 2, 2008 Phone: 906-885-5599 http://www.themovingwall.org/ The Moving Wall is a half size portable replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, located in Washington DC  and portable  Moving Wall is in HONOR all of the members of the U.S Armed Forces who served in the Vietnam War. The [...]

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Briggs Nursery – Garden and Home Center

295 Kelley Boulevard North Attleboro, MA 02760 Phone: 508-695-2048 Email: info@briggsgarden.com http://briggsgarden.com/ Today, I decided to look for some summer flowers and a hummingbird feeder for my deck since the weather is warmer and the hummingbirds are back and looking for food. My mom, who is an avid gardener and lover of nature, told me [...]

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Onset Post Office

214 Onset Avenue Onset, MA 02558 Phone: (508) 295-8672 www.usps.com Today, we took a drive to Onset and I had lunch at one of my favorite restaurants, Marc Anthony’s Pizzeria (see my review on Marc Anthony’s). As we were driving down the main Street of Onset, I noticed the Post Office which was close to [...]

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Gymboree

Galleria Mall Dr Taunton, MA 2780 Phone: 508-821-4445 http://www.gymboree.com/index.jsp   Today I went to the Silver City Galleria Mall and went to Gymboree, a store for babies and children clothes. I usually don’t shop at stores for baby clothes but I wanted to buy something very special for Cole, my new baby cousin. Chrissy, my [...]

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Dighton Post Office

232 Main Street Dighton, MA 02715 Phone: (508) 669-6308 http://www.dighton.com/gov/fed.html#po   Today, I was driving by the Post Office in Dighton and noticed it had steps leading to the main entry door so I decided to stop and check it out for wheelchair accessibility. The Post Office has steps to the entry door, yet there [...]

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Pilgrim Memorial State Park

Water Street Plymouth, MA 02360 Website: http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/southeast/plgm.htm You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=213D1ekOwfo Saturday afternoon, I was discharged from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center – Clinical Building -West Campus and am very happy to be well and back home. I’m also happy to be back on the road again to review places for wheelchair accessibility. Yesterday, my Aunt, Tony, [...]

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Shinetti’s Ice Cream

Harbour Place 114 Water Street Plymouth, MA 02360 Phone: (508) 746-0019 Shinetti’s Ice Cream is one of my favorite places to visit when I go to Plymouth. It is located right across the street from the historic Plymouth Harbor and it’s the only Ice Cream shop in Plymouth that is open all year round. It [...]

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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center – Clinical Building -West Campus

330 Brookline Avenue Boston, MA 02215 Phone: 617-667-7000 http://www.bidmc.harvard.edu/   I was heading to the Kiss 108 Concert at Tweeter Center on Sunday to enjoy the music and write a more recent wheelchair accessibility review of The Tweeter Center. I’ve gone to the Kiss 108 Concert for the past ten years and love it. (see [...]

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Best Buy – Taunton

  May, 27, 2008   May 20, 2008 2 Galleria Mall Drive Taunton, MA Phone: (508) 977-1200 http://www.bestbuy.com/ Best Buy is new to the Taunton area. It has a wide variety of electronic equipment and accessories as well as a great selection of DVDs. It is very similar to a Circuit City. I frequently go [...]

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Taunton Public Library

12 Pleasant Street Taunton, MA 02780 http://www.tauntonlibrary.org/ I’ve been asked to review the Libraries in Massachusetts by a person at the State Board of Library Commissioners who oversees the grants to Libraries to improve services for people with disabilities. I decided to start with the libraries in my area. The Taunton Library is only ten minutes [...]

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