My journey to the Beebe Ranch started while I perused the Virginia news headlines. I never anticipated that one of the stories I’d come into contact with was one I loved as a child, the story told by Marguerite Henry about the Beebe family and their pony, “Misty of Chincoteague.” As a land conservation professional working for The Conservation Fund, I’ve had opportunities to help protect properties ranging from the homes of the Founding Fathers, to Civil War battlefields, to the lands held sacred by Virginia’s tribes-treasured places that tell our nation’s story and the story of its people. Working in this field in Virginia has brought me in contact with a lot of our nation’s history. Standing in the kitchen of the house where Misty of Chincoteague rode out the Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962-and doing it for my job-was not something I ever expected to happen, yet there I was on a bright morning in March.
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