Maggie Bernard is a teenager with cerebral palsy. She overcame her disability with the help of her best friend Noble, a 27 year old horse that works as a therapy animal on Martha’s Vineyard. He is great with kids and loves his job, but in the beginning of the year, Noble started to show some health problems. His owners decided it was time for him to retire and found a place for him in another farm. But Noble didn’t like the idea.
To learn more about the Misty Meadows Equine Learning Center, you can visit their website.
This piece came to us through our production partners at Atlantic Public Media through their media training program, The Transom Story Workshop in Woods Hole. Giovana is a recent graduate from the workshop, and you can find out more about that program at Transom.org.
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