Freelance writer Alice Levitt went to the “Everything Equine” horse show last weekend and wrote about it for our column, Scene@, that appears in the Calendar section of the newspaper. Scene@ is a short little feature — 350 words or less. It’s basically a first-person “being there” piece, so it has more “attitude” than a news story would. 

Well, the model horse hobbyists Alice mentioned in her write-up thought that she put a little too much attitude in her account. One of them started a thread at modelhorseblab.com called
“A good example of Ignorance towards this hobby (or any hobby really)”
 
There are 9 pages of angry replies, including one that ends thusly: “She’s still a bitter dried up inside she-snake and woe to her if she steps foot in our barn.” Whoa, Nelly!

Consequently, the “Everything Equine” Scene@ is the 6th most popular item on our website this week, and climbing. (Photo from the horse show by Matthew Thorsen.)

This article appears in Apr 30 – May 6, 2008.

Seven Days’ deputy publisher and co-owner Cathy Resmer is a writer, editor and advocate for local journalism. She works in the paper’s Burlington office and lives vicariously through the reporters while raising money to pay them. Cathy started at Seven Days as a freelance writer in 2001 and still has the Rolodex to prove it. As the paper’s first online editor, she launched Seven Days email newsletters and started the paper’s first social media accounts. Cathy has overseen Kids VT, Vermont’s...