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- From: kcarver@dante.nmsu.edu (Kenneth Carver)
- Subject: Walter Farley, author of The Black Stallion
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.060530.19847@nmsu.edu>
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- Organization: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 06:05:30 GMT
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- With the current thread about The Black Stallion, I couldn't resist
- telling about how I met Walter Farley. There was an article about him
- in the Sunday paper magazine section, in the late '70's. It said he
- spent part of his time in Florida, and part at his farm in a certain
- Pennsylvania valley. I set the article aside, determined someday to
- visit and thank him personally for his wonderful books that have
- largely shaped my life. I lived in New Jersey at that time, and
- about 12 years ago I set out to see if I could find Walter Farley.
- I had only to ask directions once, and found his farm easily. I had
- second thoughts as I walked down the wooded lane to the secluded
- house, but he was very friendly and he showed me around and we talked
- for a while. He had no horses there, but kept several around the
- country to give him an excuse to travel. He said that Cass Ole is not
- the large horse that he wrote of as the Black, which is why the short
- Mickey Rooney was chosen to play Henry in the movie.
-
- I returned a few weeks later, this time with my stallion Shane. Of
- course I have a photograph of Walter Farley with Shane. Honestly!
-
- --Ken Carver
-