Equus Effect News Today

Get out your calendars: This week is a busy one on the Cape and Islands with Nantucket Book Festival, Sandwich car show, a Broadway benefit and more.

Donnaldson Brown, a longtime resident of New Marlborough and Brooklyn, N.Y., will celebrate the publication of "Because I Loved You" at 2 p.m. April 8 at Barnes and Noble. Brown

By LORI RILEY | Hartford Courant | Published: May 14, 2021 HARTFORD, Conn. (Tribune News Service) — When Karl Rohde was 11 years old, a pony at a birthday party knocked him over and stepped on him. A few years later, a horse ran away with him on a trail ride through brambles and brush, tearing his clothes and cutting his face. From then on, Rohde hated horses. Rohde, a Vietnam veteran, is currently the director of the Putnam County (N.Y.) Veterans Service Agency. As a veterans’ service o...

Horses helping CT health workers cope with COVID stress FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 From left, Jane Strong, executive director, The Equus Effect and Tanya Mary Smith, BSN, RNThe Equus Effect /Show MoreShow Less 2of6 3of6 5of6 6of6 SHARON — Through The Equus Effect, frontline health workers are learning coping strategies to help them get through the coronavirus pandemic and other stressful situations in their lives. The Equus Effect is a nonprofit organization originally started in 2013 with vet...