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It's an unexpected sight: all kinds of children with all kinds of disabilities in summer camp have the time of their lives. The year was 1971. The location: Camp Jened in New York's Catskill Mountains.Jim Lebrecht, born with Spina Bifida,…

People take part in the first annual Disability Pride Parade in New York City. Stephanie Keith / Stephanie Keith /…

It was 1997 and Jane Rosario, librarian at UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library, was on her way to meet Mark O'Brien, a former Berkeley student with an extensive literary collection of his own works. He was a poet and journalist and…

When Johnny Winterholler came home from World War II, he was a broken man. The young marine was captured in the Philippines in 1942 and spent the remainder of the war in Japanese prison camps, where he lost…

A version of this story about "Crip Camp" first appeared in the documentary edition of TheWrap's Oscar magazine. One of the documentaries that opened the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, “Crip Camp,” deals with Camp Jened, a summer camp for…

Of the many documentaries I saw during the Covid Lockdown, Crip Camp was the standout. Perhaps the fact that I was looking for a summer camp where my son could spend some time independently was why the documentary caught on…