Admin | January 23, 2009
By Elizabeth Ranger and Robert Boswell Editor’s note: Owen Hooks and his wife, Kathryn Adkins, recently purchased The Kite Koop, a book and kite store on Chincoteague Island. The colt that Owen Hooks’ family got when he was 10 and the summer weeks and holidays he spent with his grandparents who kept the pony on [...]
Admin | January 23, 2009
By Tyler Marks How do you tell someone you spent a night with the famous Chincoteague wild ponies? Maybe I should just learn to keep my mouth shut. When I started to tell Mr. Boswell, my journalism teacher, about my overnight during Pony Penning in July, he said, “Sit right down at your computer and [...]
Admin | January 14, 2009
By Wilma Young In 1687 Captain Daniel Jenifer received a patent for 3500 acres of “sandy and marshy and swampish land”..all of Assateague Island up to the Maryland state line. In the early history of Chincoteague and Assateague Islands, animals were grazing freely on the mainland, destroying crops. To avoid the cost of fencing, possible [...]
