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Oddly, the one post on my blog lisaunleashed.com The New York Times, According to Lisa Peterson writes about history, horses, and hounds at lisaunleashed.com. You may reach her at lisa.peterson@barngirlmedia.com. that gets the mos...

The Fairfield-Westchester chapter of the Professional Horsemen's Association annual awards dinner, on December 1, was an evening billed "to celebrate the achievements of riders, trainers, horses and their supportive teams." I went to the Ethan Allan ...

Newtown's largest private landowner, the Newtown Forest Association (NFA), seeks to keep history, hayfields, and horses at Cherry Grove Farm through an agreement with the farm's new owner. The NFA, the oldest private land trust in the state, has just...

If you scoured for deals on Black Friday, Shop Small Saturday, and Cyber Monday and still haven't found the perfect gift for your four-legged canine companion, think twice before you buy any of these items. Pet Leash Umbrella These have been aro...

About eight years ago, I wrote a press release for the American Kennel Club celebrating two breeds of dogs brought aboard the for 66-day journey to lands unknown. Among the 102 passengers was a man who brought two dogs. I wrote, "The earliest mention...

As California goes, so goes the nation. I first heard that term about a decade ago as I went on national television to battle a proposed California law for mandatory spaying and neutering of all dogs kept as pets over a certain age. I've always been ...

My dad and I lived down the road from Cherry Grove Farm in the late 1970s. We would buy eggs and produce at the farm stand. Chickens were running around willy nilly clucking happily; cows out to pasture, making low, calming moos; a huge hayfield a pe...

Writing a weekly column is no easy task. Writing a daily column, nearly impossible except for the gifted likes of one special woman I met long ago with a love of Welsh Terriers and a gift for the written word. Authors are constantly trying to come up...

October brings forth fall, foliage, and fox hunting. The first weekend of the month is the beginning of the formal season with its blessing of the hounds, hunt breakfasts, and equestrian fashion pageantry that splashes the color of autumnal leaves wi...

On a recent trip to the Hudson River Valley to tour the Vanderbilt Mansion Hyde Park in Dutchess County, N.Y., I learned about the various roles horses played in a late 19th Century Gilded Age estate.In The Park When Horses Left Hyde Park nps.g...