Editor's note: Camp Jabberwocky offers children and adults with a wide range of disabilities the chance to enjoy the summer in a small family-like community – living together and enjoying jam-packed days filled with adventurous activities and experiences that are safe, empowering, exciting and fun. Campers stay between one and four weeks during which they enjoy activities and classes on campus and out and about in the community of Martha’s Vineyard.
Beginning in the last weeks of June, a joyful noise can be heard emanating from Camp Jabberwocky’s wooded Tisbury campus. According to session director JoJo Romero De Slavy, every day is a raucous celebration but there are three Ps that every Jabberwocky camper lives for: the parade, the prom and the play.
This summer, the parade float was Broadway themed. The prom was Greek-Isles themed. And over the weekend, the play brought it all together with Mamma Mia!, a show that takes place on a Greek island far from our own.
Camp Jabberwocky was started in 1953 by Helen Lamb as what’s considered North America’s first sleepaway camp for people with disabilities. Campers come with a vast array of disabilities — some physical, some intellectual, some psychological— but everyone is embraced for their boundless creative potential, not their limitations. Besides the three Ps, campers also go horseback riding, take art classes, sail on the Mad Max, kayak and dance to Rick Bausman’s drumming on the beach. click here to continue reading.
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