No spam.Īnd trot along with my hunky OTTB and me on Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest.Marguerite Henry (April 13, 1902-November 26, 1997) was an American writer.
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Question: What fact about Marguerite Henry did you find most surprising? What Marguerite Henry books did you love? If you know other facts, please reach out! Leave a comment, by all means! That’s a wrap on five fun (and little-known) facts about Marguerite Henry. I’ve since met a handful of former neighbors of Marguerite who also told of riding the pinto pony with the map of the United States on her withers. When she was a little girl, she went to the Henry’s house in Wayne, Illinois and rode the celebrity pony! ( Read more about that in this blog post Misty of Chincoteague Photo.) She was not the only one to have ridden Misty.
I first found out about this through one of my mom’s friends. Marguerite was very generous with her equines and let local children ride Misty (and Jiggs). Perhaps her stories are so relatable and enduring because she understood the longing of having a horse of one’s own.ĥ. Marguerite Henry always loved horses–can you relate?–but didn’t get her first one until middle age.Īt the peak of Marguerite’s horse life she owned a Morgan named Friday, Misty of Chincoteague (who needs no introduction) and a burro named Jiggs who was the inspiration as she wrote the book Brighty of the Grand Canyon. If you love all things Misty, enjoy Misty of Chincoteague: Rereading a Classic Horse Book as an Adult. before we had even met! We fished by day and danced by moonlight to the music of a volunteer pianist on a piano that could have stood tuning.” She recalled how, “it was almost like a reunion. In Something About the Author, Marguerite wrote she was on a fishing trip with her two older sisters and their men (one was married, the other engaged) when she met Sidney who was also there with family. Marguerite Henry met her husband on a fishing trip in the Northwoods of Wisconsin.
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