STORK REPORT
BRIDAL PATHS
Congratulations to Anna Hanes McKnight, daughter of Turney and Liz McKnight, and Dyson Dryden, who were married on June 4 at the McKnight family farm in White Hall. T e couple now lives in New York City. (pictured on right)
Aiden Wayne Ausherman was born to Nicole and Eric Ausherman of Windy Ridge in Union Bridge on March 10.
Maryland Will Miss Lucy Acton died on June 7 from
complications related to cancer. Lucy Acton, editor of the Mid-Atlantic T oroughbred (formerly the Maryland Horse) was as much a part of the fab- ric of the Maryland horse world as the T oroughbred itself.
A Tribute to Lucy Acton from Ross Peddicord I was tipped off by Lucy Acton’s
brothers, Bruce & George Carter, a few weeks ago at the 40th reunion of the McDonogh Cavalry that their older sister, Lucy Acton, was not do- ing well physically. I knew Lucy had been battling cancer for some time, but never knew the details, and never asked. She was a quiet fi ghter and wanted to keep her battle with the disease
private. So it was with a great deal of shock that a lot of people, including some of the ones who had known her for a long time, had no idea she was even ill, much less near death. Only after Lucy passed yesterday in hospice care in Baltimore, with her beloved daughter Katherine by her side, did I learn from Bruce that she had been battling a rare form of cancer of the appendix for seven years; had undergone four surgeries; and only about a month ago had the cancer returned in a more virulent form. Just a couple of weeks ago, I wanted to pick up the phone and let her know how much I enjoyed her story in the latest issue of Mid-Atlantic T oroughbred about the Baltimore-born author Jaimy Gordon and the National Book Award winner Lord of Misrule that she wrote about the quixotic life of racetrackers. It was a diffi cult story to write, and Lucy wrote it brilliantly, perhaps the best story I think she had ever written. Ironi- cally, it was about someone else’s literary achievement. But that was Lucy,
Kerry Lynn Bingham (Food and Drug Administration in Silver Spring) and J. Zachary Brendel (Level Land Inc. and Brendel Farms) were recently engaged.
modest, self-
eff acing, doing her best job in promoting the work of oth- ers. Of course, life got in the way, and I never made the call. I have known
COMINGS AND GOINGS
Welcome to Moira Nusbaum who recently opened Penmar Equine, an equine veterinary practice in Myersville.
Fond farewell to Erin Pittman, who has retired from teaching and advising at the University of Maryland. Erin remains active in the Maryland horse industry while working with her husband Steuart Pittman on the nonprofi t venture T e Retired Racehorse Training Project.
Lucy and her brothers for about 40 years after I adopted their dad, the late Snowden Carter, as my surrogate father and mentor. I adopted Snowden. He certainly didn’t adopt me. I was a junior in the Cavalry at McDonogh School, eager to write, and Snowden let me cover the interschool horse shows, various hunter trials and events for the Mary- land Horse magazine and was the fi rst person ever to give me a shot at having anything I had ever written published. It certainly helped that the Carters were all McDonogh folks and lived practically adjacent to the school in a big, rambling Roland Park-type house. At the time, Lucy was a student at the old Hannah More Academy, a year or two ahead of my Hannah More pals Kitsi Christmas, Mary Lee Howard (now Lee Vosters) and Debbie Goldstein. I looked up to her as a slightly older, disapproving sister.
Just a couple of months ago I saw Lucy and she told me her dad would come to the dinner table and tell the family, “Well, you’re not going to believe what Ross is up to this time.” I think Lucy always considered me with a sort of benign bemusement. T e real bond though that forged our friendship over the years was not
only the love I had for her family—Snowden, her mother, Binna, and Bruce and George—but our shared love for the Maryland horse industry. We were both indoctrinated into this equine cult by her dad, who senti- mentally, and just as much unsentimentally, wrote about, romanticized, criticized, and lionized every month on the pages of T e Maryland Horse. Each issue, for me anyway and for Lucy, too, I’m sure, was like reading a horsey version of T e New Yorker with a continuing cast of characters that somehow Snowden painted larger than life, covering the escapades and
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