Maureen Beebe News Today

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 ...

The Beebe family needs to move on and sell the home of "Misty of Chincoteague, and the Museum of Chincoteague Island has issued an appeal to save it.

The 97-year Chincoteague tradition includes the Pony Swim on and the Pony Auction, the biggest fundraiser for the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company.