Amarey Brookshire was devastated when she heard about the fire at the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for seriously ill children. The fire destroyed much of the retreat in eastern Connecticut, which was founded by the late actor Paul Newman in 1988.
Artist Mia Schon finishes a mural in one of the activity rooms of the Hole In the Wall Gang Camp, March 2, 2023, in Ashford, Conn. Two years after a fire devastated Paul Newman's camp for seriously ill children, the rebuilt camp center is opening. The new $4.
Amarey, who has sickle cell disease, thought about friends she made at camp who were going through similar health struggles. She thought of the joy she felt catching her first fish, zip lining, swimming in a heated pool without worrying that cold water would trigger a health crisis, and the feeling of accomplishment after completing a box in the wood shop.
And money came pouring in, from 4,500 donors. Travelers, the insurance company, gave $1 million. The Newman's Own Foundation donated an additional $1 million. And on Tuesday, the new $4.5 million, 11,000-square-foot creative complex opens. It's a single building, made to look like several structures, with twice the space and an open-floor design. The wheelchair entrances are no longer separate, so nobody feels excluded.
A centerpiece of the new facility will be a large mosaic, made up of more than 4,000 pieces and located between the arts and crafts and woodworking area, that reads “Camp is Magic.”
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