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Diane Delano, founder of the Wild Horse Rescue Center

Duncan — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 04:00:03 +0000

Diane Delano—founder of the Wild Horse Rescue Center, a Webster, Florida facility that rescues, rehabilitates, and finds new homes for wild horses—recalls growing up amidst a family of horse lovers, and she started riding at age three. This was in the Catskills, where Delano says, she was frequently playing outside and tending to various wild […]

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John Doe, X Singer-Songwriter & Horse Guy

Duncan — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 04:00:13 +0000

John Doe—singer/songwriter/co-founder of the band X and author, most recently of “More Fun in the New World: The Unmaking and Legacy of L.A. Punk”—conducts this live interview from the Austin horse barn, where his horses Red and Sugar had just received a trim from the farrier. This provides a natural jumping off point to explore […]

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Samantha Szesciorka, equestrian, journalist, mustang adoption advocate

Duncan — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 04:00:49 +0000

Samantha Szesciorka—a Reno-based former U.S. Army journalist whose passion for horses, particularly mustangs, is manifested in some distinctive ways—recalls that she was indeed one of those little girls who loved horses, but didn’t really have access to them until she was a teenager. She also participated in equestrian competitions in college. Szesciorka describes her four-year […]

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Ginger Kathrens, wild-horse advocate, filmmaker, executive director of The Cloud Foundation

Duncan — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 04:00:24 +0000

Ginger Kathrens —wild-horse advocate, filmmaker, and executive director of The Cloud Foundation—discusses the mustang, Cloud, who is the focus of three of her films, and the namesake of the Foundation she founded, whose stated mission is dedication “to the preservation of wild horses and burros on public lands, with a special focus on Cloud’s herd […]

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John Doe, singer-songwriter-author-horseman

Duncan — Wed, 18 May 2016 04:00:35 +0000

John Doe—co-founder of punk band extraordinaire X, the singer-songwriter released a new solo album, “The Westerner,” and just published his first book, “Under The Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk”—starts our conversation addressing what horses mean to him: “They mean that I don’t think with the left side of my brain when […]

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Ellie Phipps Price, co-writer of the film “American Mustang”

Duncan — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 02:10:46 +0000

Ellie Phipps Price—executive producer and co-writer of “American Mustang,” a film exploring the round-ups of wild horses by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)—discusses her lifelong love of horses, which began in childhood. She recalls when she first became aware of the round-ups, and that an essential part of that growing awareness was Deanne Stillman’s […]

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