The Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company has shared an update outlining a trouble-making stallion and his mares, as well as unfortunate news of three ill ponies.
In 1946, reporter Marguerite Henry traveled to Chincoteague Island to write about Virginia’s wild ponies and accidentally fell in love with a trembling-legged newborn with a wet nose named Misty. Her heart jumped into her throat and she “nearly choked,” she wrote later, when she saw the foal, “new as the morning,” lying adorably on the beach “like a slightly rumpled bath mat.” She had to have .
You can lead a pony to water and it might just swim. Just ask the folks who've attended the Chincoteague Island Pony Swim sometime in the past 98 years.