http://www.myunclejoe.org/index.htmlHot News!eninfo@myunclejoe.orgCopyright 2008 PB 602008-06-19T12:39:17-04:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:04:02 -0400info@myunclejoe.orgCommunityMedia2008-06-19T12:39:17-04:00http://www.myunclejoe.org/files/cdcddb3a8e9f581cfcb75682d0f84418-5.html#unique-entry-id-5http://www.myunclejoe.org/files/cdcddb3a8e9f581cfcb75682d0f84418-5.html#unique-entry-id-5Monday night was Awards Night for Work Inc. Work, Inc. is a sevice provider for people with disabilities and psychiatric disabilities in Massachusetts. My uncle, David Rogers, presented the Joe Rogers Award for Independence to Paul Baxter. It was an exciting night at the IBEW hall, across the street from the site of Work Inc's new facility in Dorchester. The evening was also groundbreaking and by next year the new location should be good to go.

We showed a video for the event that features the seven nominees for the award. The nominees are Paul Baxter, John Carideo, Robert Collier, Alan Miller, Robert Ouelette, Grace Smith and Maura Sullivan. The award honors independence and each showed a side of the quality that was so essential in Joe Rogers' life.

Here's the video:



And the video from last year:

]]>info@myunclejoe.orgCommunityMedia2008-03-18T16:14:55-04:00http://www.myunclejoe.org/files/813a82e247cf9c797c08db36890b950b-4.html#unique-entry-id-4http://www.myunclejoe.org/files/813a82e247cf9c797c08db36890b950b-4.html#unique-entry-id-4The Moving Images Festival at the Museum of Fine Arts was a great celebration. What I most appreciate about flilm fests are walking into a theater knowing little or nothing about a film and being transported. Such was the case with Ryan and Alter Egos.

Ryan is an animated film with an extraordinary surreal quality that seems to me the height of what computers can offer. Using video recordings as a base the film]]>info@myunclejoe.orgCommunityMedia2008-03-14T09:32:54-04:00http://www.myunclejoe.org/files/718a21a4cc9dc1702453a811379d9b5e-3.html#unique-entry-id-3http://www.myunclejoe.org/files/718a21a4cc9dc1702453a811379d9b5e-3.html#unique-entry-id-3A Note from the National Fire Protection Agency Librarian and REQUEST FOR POSTS about Joe.]]>info@myunclejoe.orgInstitutionCommunityMediaindependenceDisability2008-03-11T19:34:19-04:00http://www.myunclejoe.org/files/e03813555b609c5b6ada22c064b7967d-2.html#unique-entry-id-2http://www.myunclejoe.org/files/e03813555b609c5b6ada22c064b7967d-2.html#unique-entry-id-2Jack Encancio wrote a piece in the Patriot Ledger of Quincy, MA and surrounding area about Fernald and Joe's relationship to it.

patriotledger.com

It presents the question of how the past lives with us in the present. Does the shadow of the institution ever go away? One of the most challenging things about Fernald today is that it IS a community. Yes, there are elements of the segregation of the past, but they are more historical footnotes then real forces of the present.

]]>info@myunclejoe.orgInstitutionMediaCommunityDisability2008-03-08T14:55:21-05:00http://www.myunclejoe.org/files/b810a53f7ba42860da48282e4ef2ffd6-1.html#unique-entry-id-1http://www.myunclejoe.org/files/b810a53f7ba42860da48282e4ef2ffd6-1.html#unique-entry-id-1Front Wards, Back Wards shows at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on Saturday, March 15, 1:30 (FREE!) at the Vinfen Moving Images Festival. http://www.vinfen.org/film_festival/

-WCR]]>info@myunclejoe.orgInstitutionMediaDisability2008-03-12T20:06:57-04:00http://www.myunclejoe.org/files/89354cdc4ce1ce658f56f07506a4425a-0.html#unique-entry-id-0http://www.myunclejoe.org/files/89354cdc4ce1ce658f56f07506a4425a-0.html#unique-entry-id-0Introduction to this site. From "Life in the Institution" to "Life in the Community."]]>