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Out & About May 9 – 26
By Evelyn Shotwell, Chincoteague Chamber of Commerce May 9-June 27 Thursdays: Introduction to Digital Nature Photography Class with Chris Hudson at Delmarva Discovery Center. Visit www.delmarvadiscoverycenter.org. May 17: Eastern Shore 2nd Annual Coast Guard Run 2 Remember 5K Run/Walk on CNWR Wildlife Loop at 11 a.m. For info: MK2 Alan Shanks (757-336-2860). May 17: Girls Night Out at Girls Day Boutique, 5 p.m.-9p.m. 20% off 1st item, 10% off additional items. Other great sales! 757-336-1400 May 18: le Tour de Shore Bike Tour sponsored by...
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read moreAssateague Parking Lot Recovery Begins
Thanks again to the federal government the parking lots at Assateague Beach will be restored by the end of May, following the damage from Hurricane Sandy. Unlike recovery work from previous storms, the sand and shell replenishment was put out for bids. For past storm damaged parking lots the work has been done by the maintenance crew from the National Park Service. On its website, the park service writes, “The highly anticipated repair work on beach parking lots damaged during Hurricane Sandy has begun. Visitors to the Chincoteague National...
read moreMuseum 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 dedicated to the historic watermen and their ways of life displayed...
read moreEarly Visitors to Assateague Island
By Wilma Young About the writer: Wilma Young served as a senior volunteer at several national parks, coming to the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge three times. Her last stay at the Chincoteague refuge was just before her 80th birthday in 1997-98. On this third stay she served as an environmental education teacher for the Chincoteague Natural History Association. As a volunteer in her first two summers, along with the various duties she was given, Wilma found time to write. She spent hours reading about Chincoteague history and...
read moreAs Spring Arrives, Pace Picks Up for History Association
By Misty Thornton Editor, Wild Pony Tales Beth Hanback is a bundle of energy and she needs to be. She’s the epicenter of a moving whirlwind with a dozen decisions an hour to make. Beth is the backbone and executive director of the Chincoteague Natural History Association, a group of supporters the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge could not do without. She seems to know almost everything about the Refuge but says she learns something new every day. Beth has been with the Association since early 2006 and became executive director in...
read moreMother 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 all the farm equipment while at the Chincoteague Pony Farm.” Donna...
read moreRain, Cold Doesn’t Slow Cowboys
By Leslie Adkins Editor, Wild Pony Tales For the Saltwater Cowboys October came, it seems, right on the heels of the July 2008 Chincoteague pony swim that brought thousands of people to this Island on the Virginia coast. Three times a year the cowboys load their mounts into trailers and leave homes in North Carolina, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and other distant places and travel to Chincoteague where they meet up on the range at Assateague Island, where the famous wild ponies roam. [Show as slideshow] 1234...141516► The...
read moreOut of the Sea Mist They Came
[Show as slideshow] 1234...222324► By Tammy Rickman Lightning flashed through my window at two in the morning, waking me from an already restless sleep. I laid there and listened as thunder clapped and roared outside. Within moments another bright flashed crackled across the sky splitting the heavens. I was already tired and running on sheer will from the weekend of early mornings and late nights watching the roundup activities that preceded the 2009 Pony Swim which would take place in just two days. This would not be my first Pony...
read moreNo, They Don’t Get Any Bigger
By Wilma Young Deer? “Don’t those little deer ever get any bigger?” No. Those little deer-like animals are really Asian elk known as sikas. [Show as slideshow] 123456► The sikas range over the entire refuge but a snail group is frequently seen near the administration building hoping for a treat from a visitor. How can you be sure it’s a sika and not a white tailed deer? The trade mark of the sika is the bright white shield on its rump… a powder-puff behind. The white-tailed deer has a brown tail with a...
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