Unless you’re new to my blog, or you skip over the self-aggrandizing posts like this one, you’ve already read several times about my successful efforts to have a wheelchair accessible pathway installed through Thomas Knight Park. Now three widely read outlets have picked up the story. I first documented this issue and my intention to… Continue reading More Media Coverage about the Accessible Pathway in My Neighborhood
MITCH STURGEON
Author and Blogger
Living With MS
Tag: Park pathway
Four Short Takes
Introducing…iConquerMS™. This is a new and different kind of research initiative for MS, launched by the Accelerated Cure Project in Boston, MA. It’s dedicated to patient-driven research, based on the novel use of huge amounts of data from all of us living with MS. The initiative’s Internet portal, www.iConquerMS.org, is now live. I already visited… Continue reading Four Short Takes
Wheelchair Accessible Path Installed around Cobblestone Street in My Neighborhood
As I mentioned in my September post entitled Our Love Affair with Cobblestone Streets and Brick Sidewalks, for years there has been a cobblestone street impeding wheelchair access to the Casco Bay Bridge, which connects Portland and South Portland. I took up the cause in May 2013 with this video posted at mycounterpane.com: I spoke… Continue reading Wheelchair Accessible Path Installed around Cobblestone Street in My Neighborhood
Our Love Affair with Cobblestone Streets and Brick Sidewalks
People are moving back to the cities. After decades of migrating away from one another, and building on huge, wooded house lots that isolated us from our neighbors, people are living in close proximity again. It’s a wonderful thing to see. Cities like Portland and South Portland, Maine are experiencing revitalizations. As part of this… Continue reading Our Love Affair with Cobblestone Streets and Brick Sidewalks