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Jan 28, 2009 18:06

Chincoteague and Assateague Islands are the fantasy vacation lands of my childhood. I have wanted to go there ever since I was a little girl (for the obvious reason that any girl who loves horses and books will know ♥) - and now, of all things unexpected, I live less than an hour away.

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suaine January 28 2009, 23:10:14 UTC

Dude. There are a bunch of points to make, but all I can come up with is: YOU WERE A HORSE GIRL TOO?

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suaine January 29 2009, 01:52:53 UTC

Pretty much all the girls I grew up with, actually. I FELT SO WEIRD! And a lot of fandom peeps I know will forever deny that before Tolkien, they loved horsies.

bookshop January 29 2009, 15:09:51 UTC

growing up i was the only horse girl i knew. :(

! 1crowdedhour January 28 2009, 23:12:09 UTC

I got to hold the mechanical (a draft MH made for the illustrator to work from) in my hands! (If I had known, back when I was a horse-crazy -- and book-crazy too, come to think of it -- little girl, I would have plotzed.) MH's papers are in the Kerlan (children's literature) collection at the University of Minnesota.

I told a few friends about this afterward, but some of them had never even heard of MH, let alone MISTY OF CHINCOTEAGUE. So nice to be able to mention it to someone who appreciates her.

Re: ! bookshop January 29 2009, 15:26:34 UTC

When I was little I wrote a fan letter to Marguerite Henry, my first and only. I don't remember if I ever sent it. I also had every Breyer horse replica of her entire story collection and I proudly wrote "CHINCOTEAGUE" in giant uneven scrawl on my bookshelves one day. With a black sharpie. Oops. It's still there, peeking out under the latest coat of paint.

When I was in school at IU, the Lilly Library had an exhibition of illustrations from classic children's lit, and I got so excited because they were featuring some of Wes Dennis's illustrations for all the MH books, and I couldn't properly explain myself to my friends.

wcg January 28 2009, 23:19:30 UTC

Chincoteague is pretty. You should visit. The motel rates are pretty cheap there this time of year, and they'll be low until about Easter. There's pony kitch all over the place, as you might guess, but it's mostly just a small Virginia tidewater town on the west side of the island and the national park on the east side.

anatsuno January 28 2009, 23:21:04 UTC

I think Tumblr is supposed to feel like oldschool blogs: you know, when instead of being journals, blogs where 'weblogs', where people linked to one item they'd found on the web, thereby 'logging' it? So we've moved on and blogs absorbed OLJs and became super powered with comments and were suddenly platforms for many a varied thing, and then people started feeling sometimes like having to nurture community and answer and moderate comments was hard, and they looked upon Kottke.org again and thought, dude, we could have a format without comments, where you jsut POST ONE INTERESTING ITEM AT A TIME! And lo, web2.0 rediscovered 1997. Yaye!

(I sound sarcastic but I like and understand the urge for the pared down thing. I'm doing my own version very sparsely on http://www.anatsuno.net/driftwood/ - not using Tumblr, but does that matter?)

sheepinbox January 28 2009, 23:21:23 UTC

Miiiiiisty, oh wow. Of course all of the books are back home halfway across the US now...I can even picture exactly which shelf their on in what room. I was never a "horse girl" so much as an "animals animals animals" girl but I loved those nonetheless.

Also, Twitter drives me bananas. There's a girl at school with me here at Smith who basically updates every time she reads a page in her Orgo text...or so it seems the few times I get on to check my f-list these days. Eesh.