A Life: A Life: Dianne Phyllis (Hawk) Dunn; ‘An ambassador for horsemanship’
Dianne Dunn prepares in her barn for a horseback ride in 2006. (Family photograph)
Dianne Dunn with one her horses in a 2016 photograph. (Family photograph)
Dianne Dunn celebrates a birthday in 1962. (Family photograph)
Modified: 1/11/2021 9:11:41 PM
NORWICH In the early evening, after the construction crews working on Interstate 91 went home for the day, the horseback riders would arrive.
The hard-packed dirt that would lay the path of the highway in the 1960s gave Dianne Dunn and other riders room to gallop.
“It was a place where we knew we could really run, so we did,” said Marilyn Mason, a friend of Dunn’s, who died at 88 on Nov. 30, 2020. “We were always up for adventure.”