GREENFIELD, NH - Performing artist and brain injury survivor Jennifer Field, presented her autobiographical one-woman show, A Distant Memory, at Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation Center in October of 2007.

Jennifer Field was born in New York City and raised in New Hampshire . She started riding horses at age 6 and became nationally recognized at age 12, as an award winning show jumper. Her closely watched and promising career was cut short following a near fatal car accident at age 17 that left her comatose and brain damaged. Unable to walk, talk, or use her right arm, Ms. Field battled numerous physical, mental and emotional obstacles over the next decade to regain her physical independence. She fought back to graduate Magna Cum Laude with a bachelor's degree in art history from Wheaton College in Massachusetts.

Ms. Field's critically acclaimed, A Distant Memory is an autobiographical one-woman show, where she takes audiences on her inspirational day-to-day fight for physical independence. A Distant Memory is a poignant, humorous and honest insight into one young woman's response to the challenges she faced following a profound interruption to her life's plans. To learn more about this remarkable woman, visit her website: www.jfieldfoundation.org.

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Crotched Mountain is a charitable organization employing more than 900 people. Its mission is to serve individuals with disabilities and their families, embracing personal choice and development, and building communities of mutual support. Crotched Mountain provides specialized education, rehabilitation, community, and residential support services for more than 2,000 people annually, at its rehabilitation center in Greenfield, New Hampshire and in communities throughout New Hampshire and in selected locations in Massachusetts, Maine and New York. For more information about Crotched Mountain please visit their web site: www.crotchedmountain.org.