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Looking for Accessible Beaches?
A new guide reviewing beach accessibility on Martha's Vineyard has been released for the 2025 season! “A Beach Within Reach: Summer 2025 Guide on Accessibility of Martha’s Vineyard Beaches” reviews the accessibility all Island public beaches for people of all abilities. It includes many recent improvements ranging from parking to on-beach accessibility and other features that towns and other beach operators have made. It is designed for individuals with mobility and visual disabilities and the elderly, but it should universally benefit all beachgoers who bring their families as well as their gear to the beach.
This beach-by-beach profile can be viewed at https://www.hamv.org/accessiblebeaches. The guide was developed by the Beach within Reach Initiative, a coalition of Healthy Aging Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County Associate Commissioner for Disabilities, and by the regional Independent Living Center, Cape Organization for the Rights of the Disabled (CORD).
Anniversary Edition of ‘Mexico By Touch’
NLS has released Larry Johnson’s anniversary edition publication of “Mexico by Touch,” DB 126112, on BARD. He revised and expanded the original publication and published it in hard-copy format and on Kindle in 2023. NLS just released it on BARD in April of this year. The narrator is Jake Williams.