By Jonathan Tressler, The News-Herald
A woman in a wheelchair gets on a bus…
Although those words don’t seem like it nowadays, 30 years ago they very well could have been the beginning of some kind of sick joke, primarily because public transportation — public anything, for that matter — was anything but accessible to people who used wheelchairs, walkers, braces and any of a host of other adaptive devices because of a physical challenge.
But thanks to the efforts of people like Mary Verdi-Fletcher, who in 1980 established the country’s first truly integrated dance company composed of performers with and without physical disabilities, the world’s come a long, long way since then. Read the Full article here.