Admin | July 24, 2009
By Tammy Rickman You never know what can come from a group of ladies standing around, talking with time on their hands. Just ask the Buy Back Babes. From across the country, they are trickling into Chincoteague, preparing to attend the roundup, swim and auction during Pony Penning. But they have important business to attend [...]
Admin | July 21, 2009
By Robert Boswell Men beware. If you perk up one ear, lick or chew on your lips a little, or watch your mate with only one eye you have given yourself away. You are the submissive type and from here on out you are at the will of your trainer. When Katye Allen steps into [...]
Admin | July 21, 2009
By Robert Boswell and Kate White It is an hour before show time. But unlike on Broadway, for this show some performers have to be brought in from the paddock out front, manes have to be brushed and braided, and girths tightened so saddles won’t slip. Instead of the dressing room, trips are made [...]
Admin | July 11, 2009
Thousands of families come to visit Chincoteague and Assateague Islands. Few of them, though, have packed up and moved here and so quickly began calling this little seaside part of Virginia home. Tammy Rickman and her husband, Lee, did though and with their children have gotten into school and community activities, fished from our waters, [...]
