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The history of our ponies (they are actually small horses) is somewhat obscure, but they almost certainly arrived on the island with 16th century explorers, early settlers, and/or as survivors of shipwrecks.
Click here to watch the WRAL video: http://www.wral.com/news/local/video/15814119/.
This month's Ocracoke Newsletter is my analysis of a sentence penned by surveyor Jonathan Price in 1795. The sentence reads, "Occacock was heretofore, and still retains the name of, an island. It is now a peninsula; a heap of sand having gradually filled up the space which divided it from the bank." You can read my analysis here: https://www.villagecraftsmen.com/description-occacock-1795/.
Free the "wild" Mustangs of Ocracoke Island. Since 1960 the dwindling herd has been penned up to save them from traffic but serve as a tourist attraction. Free the Mustang but relocate them to live on the other OBX locations to roam free and run through the surf. Does it not depress a visitor to see them bored in a corral? I was unable to hear the 3 minute report as it did not load, I think the site could not handle all the traffic this post sent to the link.
ReplyDeleteThe Ocracoke Pony Pasture is 188 acres.
DeleteWell that's good to know. Other images on line show corrals and barns. These animals fare much better than the Wild Mustangs out West, as recent articles on line paint a picture of round-ups to reduce the herds.
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