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In 1959, a unique program opened in the Allegheny National Forest near Warren, Pennsylvania. In a rugged mountain setting known as Camp Cornplanter, people who had disabilities were welcomed into a rustic residential setting. Amidst the breathtakingly beautiful woodlands, the distinctive camp was like an oasis in the era of institutional care. The Magic Fire captures the history of the Seneca Chief Cornplanter, and, the extraordinary spirit of...

More than one million people died in American asylums and institutions designed to care for people who had mental illness or developmental disabilities. To protect the privacy of patients or their families, many display no names. Patients were buried by number, in the final act of institutional depersonalization. Row upon row of numbered stones or cast iron markers are all that is left for the thousands and thousands of people buried in such c...