Museum of Chincoteague Opens with Heritage Day Celebration
[Show as slideshow] 1234...171819► By Misty Thornton Editor, Wild Pony Tales When you step into the doorway of the Museum of Chincoteague you have gone through a gateway into the past of the storied islands of Chincoteague and Assateague on the East Coast of Virginia. The museum opened March 22 with its second Heritage Day Celebration that brought old timers and other visitors together. They had plenty of memories to share. Once through the entrance is an exhibit...
Mother Nature Needed Lots of Help with Colt Named Lucky
[Show as slideshow] 1234...282930► By Robert Boswell Publisher, Wild Pony Tales Updated August 30, 2012 Editor’s Update: Lucky, who will be four months old September 3, has found a new home at The Refuge Inn, in the corral between the Inn and McDonalds. “He does not like to socialize with the other ponies and seems to stay off to himself,” says Donna Leonard. “Maybe if we put a tractor in the pasture he would hang out with that, he loved...
Storms Raise Everyone’s Eyebrows as They Look to Future of the Islands
Sandy ‘A Storm of Two Faces’ By Zack Hoverson and Robert Boswell [Show as slideshow] 1234...121314► As management at the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge on Assateague Island looks ahead to the upcoming release in January of its choice of a conservation plan, it again takes into account the wide impact of storms in recent history. Chosen from three plans that have all drawn strong criticism from the Town of Chincoteague and the business...
The Ever Changing Coast a Photographer’s Palette
By Zackrey Hoverson Nikhil Bahl, a nature photographer, presented what Assateague as a barrier island can offer photographers. He encouraged those with cameras to look for simple photographs, and not include too much in their pictures. Nikhil spoke to an audience in the auditorium on Assateague Wildlife Refuge during Waterfowl Week, November 23. Nikhil is a professional nature photographer, educator, author, lecturer and workshop instructor. He currently resides in...
4,000 Early Spectators Cheer Ponies on Beach
[Show as slideshow] 123456► By Robert Boswell Dawn was just breaking over the Atlantic Ocean on Assateague Beach on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Yet up to 4,000 people were up and waiting as the waves lapped the sand on this warm morning near the end of July. It was not your usual beach crowd. Not as many towels, sand buckets, chairs or umbrellas. But it wasn’t the water and sand that brought so many to the beach this Monday morning, July 23. It was the...
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