PORT DEPOSIT â âAnna was a little scared when she first started,â said Renee Dixon, executive director of Freedom Hills Therapeutic Riding. âBut now sheâs so brave.â
Dixon was leading a riding lesson with Anna and Lea Lavingia, six- and eight-year-old sisters who enrolled this past summer, as well as Rebekah Ragan, a rider with cerebral palsy who has been attending Freedom Hills on and off for over 20 years.
Dixon shouted directions across the sandy arena as the sun sank west over the Susquehanna â âTurn left and head for the rainbows, Lea!â or âGo all the way to the woods, Rebekah!â