“I watched the cars with their boats and campers going up north to get away for a while and find some cool spot to enjoy. This is fine for those people, but then I would come back to the cities and go [to] the Vets hospital, soldier’s home and the nursing homes. These people had no place to go and if they did, there is nobody to take them even for an hour or a day."
In June of 1971, Ed Wilmes of Fridley, Minnesota described a serious lack that he had identified in the Twin Cities community: a place for the disabled, physically handicapped, or the blind to go and enjoy nature. As a local citizen