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Mar 21, 2025 | 
equusmagazine.com | Eliza McGraw
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Feb 27, 2025 | 
chronofhorse.com | Eliza McGraw
This Throwback Thursday, in recognition of Black History Month, we’re looking back at the life of Tom Bass, the groundbreaking equestrian who was the namesake for the annual Tom Bass Seminar on Diversity in Equestrian Sport. This article was first published in the July/August 2017 issue of Untacked. When Tom Bass rode his brilliant black mare Belle Beach into a show ring in the early 1900s, large crowds were often stunned into silence—and then brought to their feet to cheer for him.
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Dec 13, 2024 | 
equusmagazine.com | Eliza McGraw
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
midatlantictb.com | Eliza McGraw
Horses graze in rolling pastures along the lengthy driveway as you pull into Long Branch, the Virginia farm bought, restored and preserved by Maryland Thoroughbred breeder Harry Isaacs.
The local hunt rides through the property and beaglers go afoot. Couples get married inside the historic house and people walk their dogs around the Clarke County property, with the Blue Ridge Mountains beyond. Art exhibits, speaker series and lectures fill the Long Branch calendar. You can visit the rose garden.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
smithsonianmag.com | Eliza McGraw
“Debutante to Be Courier in Wilds of Kentucky Hills,” read a 1938 Baltimore Sunheadline about a messenger for the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), which dispatched horseback-riding nurse-midwives to patients in the state’s rural mountains. Reporters avidly covered the organization’s couriers—young women who volunteered to assist the equestrian health care providers by performing a wide range of tasks, including transporting messages.
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
fredericknewspost.com | Eliza McGraw
Orange blossom, alfalfa, buckwheat. Tulip poplar, meadowfoam, star thistle. Basswood, knapweed, kudzu. It sounds like a rundown of random flora, but these are all names of honey varietals I’ve run across lately. Ever since I started noticing a proliferation beyond the standard squeeze bears, I started looking for new types at farm stands, meaderies and in markets, stopping to browse racks and crowding my pantry with jars filled with honeys of all shades.
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
sandiegouniontribune.com | Eliza McGraw
Orange blossom, alfalfa, buckwheat. Tulip poplar, meadowfoam, star thistle. Basswood, knapweed, kudzu. It sounds like a rundown of random flora, but these are all names of honey varietals I’ve run across lately. Ever since I started noticing a proliferation beyond the standard squeeze bears, I started looking for new types at farm stands, meaderies and in markets, stopping to browse racks and crowding my pantry with jars filled with honeys of all shades.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
postguam.com | Eliza McGraw
Orange blossom, alfalfa, buckwheat. Tulip poplar, meadowfoam, star thistle. Basswood, knapweed, kudzu. It sounds like a rundown of random flora, but these are all names of honey varietals I've run across lately. Ever since I started noticing a proliferation beyond the standard squeeze bears, I started looking for new types at farm stands, meaderies and in markets, stopping to browse racks and crowding my pantry with jars filled with honeys of all shades.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
washingtonpost.com | Eliza McGraw
Orange blossom, alfalfa, buckwheat. Tulip poplar, meadowfoam, star thistle. Basswood, knapweed, kudzu. It sounds like a rundown of random flora, but these are all names of honey varietals I’ve run across lately. Ever since I started noticing a proliferation beyond the standard squeeze bears, I started looking for new types at farm stands, meaderies and in markets, stopping to browse racks and crowding my pantry with jars filled with honeys of all shades.
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Sep 6, 2023 | 
midatlantictb.com | Eliza McGraw
When farm manager Ellie Dalton and assistant manager Alex Lee got to the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation’s Front Royal, Va., farm one sunny April morning, 69 horses waited. Some wanted grain. Others had misplaced their fly masks. Most quietly grazed the gentle hills of the farm’s approximately 200 acres.
Sixty-eight are Thoroughbreds (no one is quite sure how a breed-unknown gelding named Burt made it through, but he is a part of the farm now).
