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In 1946, reporter Marguerite Henry traveled to Chincoteague Island to write about Virginia’s wild ponies and accidentally fell in love with a trembling-legged newborn with a wet nose named Misty. Her heart jumped into her throat and she “nearly choked,” she wrote later, when she saw the foal, “new as the morning,” lying adorably on the beach “like a slightly rumpled bath mat.” She had to have ...

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When a museum asked the public to pony up funds to buy the ranch that inspired the “Misty of Chincoteague” books, thousands of readers delivered.

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The ranch that inspired Marguerite Henry’s "Misty of Chincoteague" is up for sale, and a local museum is asking for help protecting the iconic property from eager real estate developers.

The novel, focusing on Billy Beebe's cousins and grandparents, brought generations of readers and fans to the plot of land on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

The home of the most famous of Chincoteague Island's beloved ponies will live on as a museum thanks to donations.

Mount Union has a long list of notable alumni. Here are some of the Purple Raiders who went on to great heights in their career.

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