On a muggy afternoon just before Memorial Day, 100 people gathered in the woods at the Warner Pine Grove Cemetery of the former Belchertown State School. A bell was rung. The names of those who had passed since the last time we gathered were read.
BELCHERTOWN When Donald Vitkus died in 2018, he left behind a legacy of disability rights advocacy. Vitkus, a former resident of Belchertown State School, worked with author Ed Orzechowski to chronicle his experiences at the school in a book and.
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