The Traveling Wheelchair

 
Madeira Island, Portugal

www.madeira-web.com

www.madeira-island.com
Ben Vindo, (Welcome)

My friend Tony had taken a trip to Madeira Island and has told me much about his experience. While there he described all of his joyful moments especially finding out about his roots. Tony kindly offered to share some information that might enlighten people on reviewing wheelchair accessibility from another country’s point […]

Carrie Mulderink
Illinois

wcw2@comcast.net

Carrie Mulderink, an 18 year girl old with Cerebral Palsy, from the State of Illinois wrote a play for her Creative Writing class about various experiences of discrimination that she’s experienced throughout her life just because of her disability. Mr. Glen Brown, Carrie’s Creative Writing teacher suggested that Carrie contact Kenny & co and […]

330 Homer St.
Newton Centre, 02459
Phone: 617-796-1360

www.newtonfreelibrary.net

My friends and I recently visited Newton Free Library which is part of the Minuteman Network and were very pleased to see that it is fully wheelchair accessible. There are plenty of handicap parking spaces conveniently located close to the building. There is a front entrance that has a bricked […]

Water Street
Plymouth, MA 02360
Plymouth, MA

My friends and I were recently traveling along the Historic Plymouth Waterfront when we saw Brewster Gardens so we took a wheel/stroll through to see if it is wheelchair accessible and were happy to see that Brewster Gardens is fully accessible. I’ve been coming to Plymouth for many years and only […]

2 Meadowbrook Way
Carver, MA 02330
Phone: 508-866-3415

http://www.carverpl.org/

My friends and I visited Carver Public library to research information on local cranberry bogs and to do a wheelchair accessibility review. We were pleasantly surprised  to see that the small rural town of Carver has a fully wheelchair accessible library.

Handicap parking spaces are conveniently located right up front in the library’s parking […]

777 Elsbree Street
Fall River, MA 02720
Phone: 508-678-2811

http://www.bristol.mass.edu/

Josh, my friend and member of ‘Kenny & co’ is currently a student at Bristol Community College, which is located in Fall River Massachusetts. On Columbus Day he invited me, Tony, Ric, and Josh, my roommate to visit the campus to see how wheelchair accessible it is.

The college campus […]

201 County Street
Attleboro, MA  02703
Phone: 774-203-1840

http://www.capronparkzoo.com/

After seeing a picture of the ‘The King of Attleboro’ and reading the article, ‘Rare lion is zoo’s pride and joy’ in the City & Region section in the Boston Globe today, I decided to head to Capron Park Zoo to meet Ramses, the rare white lion and see how […]

Tee Pee
Forests of Plympton
 

While traveling on the highway today we spotted two very large Native American Tee Pees tucked deep inside the woods of Plympton.  We decided to investigate further to see if these Tee Pees are wheelchair accessible. When we got off the highway we found a dirt road that happens to lead to these […]

5 Hall Street
Dennisport, MA 02639
Phone: 508-760-6219

www.dennispubliclibrary.org
 

My friend and I went to the Dennis Public Library to do a review on its wheelchair accessibility and we were very impressed with what we saw.  The handicap parking space is very close to the wheelchair accessible ramp and the main entry doors.  The ramp leading to the entry […]

 
Water Street
Plymouth, MA

http://www.visit-plymouth.com/plymouthrock.htm

My previous wheelchair accessibility review of 
Plymouth Rock was done in July when it was under major construction and wasn’t accessible for me or any persons in wheelchairs to see.

Today my friends and I traveled to Plymouth to see if the major construction and repairs of the Plymouth Rock Portico were completed and we were […]