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I thought this was cool! What was YOUR childhood barn?!

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  • #161
    My childhood barn, Hillcroft Acres owned by Louise McConnell, (30 years ago) is now a shopping center and the XC country field where I galloped my horses is a housing development.

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    • #162
      <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Posted Oct. 23, 2005 03:58 PM
      My old barn, Elm Brook farm in Concord, Mass., is now an office for This Old House. They really did a great job renovating the place (and from TOH, what else could you expect?) but the cross-country course is now a housing development and the lower ring is a parking lot. The farmhouse that we had such a blast at looks lonely without the huge old elm shading the front lawn. Sigh. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

      I went to an event at Elm Brook Farm, maybe 1981 or 82? Then, in 1983 or so, I bought an old four horse Kingston Trailer that used to belong to them! I loved that trailer, it was a bumper pull, had three axles, pulled like a dream, it must have been about 40 feet long. I would love to find another one like it.

      I figured Elm Brook was probably a housing development by now.

      I never had any riding lessons when I was a kid, but the Thoroughbred breeding farm where I used to hang out (Kimstead, in Pepperell, Mass.) is now a housing development. (Of course.) On the other hand, the Hollis (NH) Town Ring, where I grew up riding, is still there.
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      • #163
        I was 5, Brookwood Stables near Tacoma, WA. It seems to still be a fancy barn...

        http://www.brookwoodequestrian.com

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        • #164
          Bac they left the house there?? Are the barns gone?? Is it a development?? ITs so very sad. I think I will never go back there, it will make me cry. !

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          • #165
            <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Sannois:
            Bac they left the house there?? Are the barns gone?? Is it a development?? ITs so very sad. I think I will never go back there, it will make me cry. ! </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

            Yes the house is still there although in poor shape and the big tree next to it is gone too. The barns are gone and there are houses in what used to be the back field. There are also houses in the small front ring and the main ring, I can drive right by without even realizing it. And of course the stockade fence is gone.

            Donnie was visiting a couple of years ago and I took him to see it, he was very sad. Definitely don't bother going to see it if you ever come to visit, its better to remember it as it was than to see it now.

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            • #166
              lsm1212, I forgot to mention, TSH still holds the Junior Olympics every spring too, I love to go and spectate. Everything about Thomas' is pretty much as it was in the old days, even the teeny indoor. And Nancy Thomas runs it, the school celebrated its 50th anniversary a couple of years ago.

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              • #167
                All you Thomas' folks: Do they still do the roof-top leaping at the Christmas Show? I worked there in 1983/84 and loved it.

                Horses I remember: Lil' Abner, Sport, Yamaha, Razzle-Dazzle, Brigadoon, Catawba, Gentleman Jim (NOT!), Cricket, Blueberry, Peterbilt, Mister-Mister, Tex, Gator and Caleb.
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                • #168
                  Anyone from the Cleveland, Ohio area remember Red Raider Camp? That was a great place to ride.

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                  • #169
                    Never heard of any roof top leaping but I never rode there, I only live nearby. A friend recently started teaching there, I'll ask her about it though.

                    Is that the pinto Lil Abner you remember? (Thomas has a habit of reusing the same names). If so my friend used to show him back in the 60's.

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                    • #170
                      Wow, I hadn't read this thread before. I read the entire chain and the mentioning of John Moffatt at Mount Holyoke really had the memories rushing back.

                      I grew up riding at a barn in Ludlow, MA in the mid-70s. It was, in it's heyday, a Morgan farm but is now transformed into a construction place of some sort. The indoor looks like it houses large equipment. The land across from the barn is a tree farm and a house.

                      One of my first riding isntructors at this place had ridden and worked, I think, with John Moffatt. She would mention him a lot. Her name was Roberta Ayers. She had a chestnut gelding names Quarter Spook. I always though it was such an odd name, and still do, for a horse. Just as odd as I though it was when she had letters along the walls of the indoor area. I wondered why they were there: A, F, B, M, C, H, E, K!! Aaah, the ignorance of youth.

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                      • #171
                        Haverhill Farms, Michigan. The location I "grew up" at is now a development. They moved farther out. It was great living in the 'burbs w/ a big facility (besides the private Bloomfield Open Hunt) only 15 minutes away.

                        Haverhill Farms
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                        • #172
                          Pine Lakes Country Club...a really neat barn (though creepy as heck on stormy eves alone w/ your horses, or locked in the HUGE hayloft by a giggling friend who just flipped the power switch) and a lot of fun in it's day. But as real estate climbed the owner of PL decided to sell it after her old QH died. She did and the barn was taken apart by each rafter & beam and is now some golfing club house in another location. Only in Myrtle Beach!
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                          • #173
                            My first years were spent at Bailey Hollow Farm (formerly Golden Eagle) in Dalton, PA, with Jim Culleton and hunting with the Abington Hills Hunt club. Jim is now in Virginia, the AHH is no more and the farm is now Abington Hills Farm (don't know the new owners). Familiar to anyone?
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                            • #174
                              Webb Carroll Stables in Columbia, SC. Think the Jewish Community Center is there now. Funny that I found out 25 years later that my best friend from college (and still best friend) is related to Webb Carroll.
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