Hole in the Wall Gang Camp Hole in the Wall Gang Camp The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, based in Ashford, Connecticut, is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, residential summer camp, and year-round center serving children and their families coping with cancer and other serious illnesses and conditions. The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp and was founded by actor Paul Newman in 1988. The camp is named after the gang in Newman's film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". The camp is a parcel of land including a lake. The land was originally part of a large farm owned by the Harakaly family. When the
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid nominated), and Best Actress for Katharine Ross, among others. William Goldman won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay. In 2003, the film was selected for the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The Academy Film Archive preserved "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" in 1998. The film inspired the television series "Alias Smith and Jones", starring Pete Duel and Ben Murphy as outlaws trying to earn an amnesty. A parody titled "Botch Casually and the Somedunce Kid" was published in "MAD". It was illustrated by