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As you can see, our interests in horses are many and varied.

●  We trail ride, both competitive and pleasure

●  We camp our with our horses.

●  We engage in eventing, fox hunting, driving and showing

●  Whatever else we do with our horses, we all enjoy trail riding

We also enjoy bringing you this club, the ride listings, the mileage recognition and this website

Be gentle with us dear members, because as you can see, we would rather be out riding

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NEHT President,
Janet Marantz

In addition to trail riding, Janet also has fun fox hunting.  She has Copy for Fox hunting and Rocky (a Rocky Mountain Horse) for trail riding.

Janet manages the published ride listing and keeps an eye on all our activities.

  
   
NEHT Vice President, 
Judy Lorimer

Judy has been very active over the years as a competitive trail rider and judge  and as a pleasure trail rider.  Her horses are Akhira and We Be Flyin, a Standardbred

Judy also works with "Build a School in Africa" to build schools in Mali.

PEPPERELL, MA – Judith Mann Lorimer, 82, passed away on June 16, 2023. Judy was born in Boston, MA on January 18, 1941, the first child of Dr. Robert V. Lorimer and Lily (Mann) Lorimer. After her father returned from World War II, the family moved to Portland, Maine.
After graduation, she took education courses in Boston and worked with the Head Start program and the Boston City Hospital day care center. In 1971, having become somewhat weary of city life, she moved to rural Massachusetts, working for the rest of her career as a kindergarten teacher in Harvard, MA. While she noted that class chemistry varied from year to year, groups of hyperactive children were a common phenomenon. She joked that such kids were like "a pot of popcorn kernels on the stove with the burner turned on High and no lid on the pot."
After moving to Pepperell, MA, she was able to rekindle her long-dormant interest in horses and trail riding, owning one or two horses at a time in a barn in the back yard. She completed more than 7,000 miles of long-distance trail riding throughout New England and was newsletter editor for the Eastern Competitive Trail Riders Association.
In the early 1990s she took some courses in African art and dance to better inform her students about Black history and culture, and was "immediately hooked." She became involved in local African cultural events and traveled to Mali. Noting that the schools in Mali were often little more than an empty room with straw mats on the floor, she co-founded the "Build a School in Africa" organization and did much of the fund-raising. For the next 30 years she was able to assist in supervising the construction of 30 schools, traveling to Mali almost every year. One school was even named in her honor. "If you'd told me 15 years ago, I'd be going to Africa every year, I would have said you're crazy. But it's changed my life too, for the better."
Riding horses, splitting wood, and her interests in ethnic dance helped keep Judy trim and fit, and she was still riding horses at age 80.

   
NEHT Treasurer,
Pat Darmofal

Pat and Henry, a Rocky Mountain Horse spend the trail riding season camping and riding all over New England.

Pat has been with NEHT since its inception and is also an officer in Cross State Trail Riders and has Chair or Board positions with NH Horse Council and NH Horse & Trail
   
NEHT Secretary,
Linda McCrossan

Linda hunts with her OT Thoroughbred, Jefferson and also has a retired Appaloosa, Tigger, a "been there, done that horse"

Linda is also the Treasurer for the Hazel Grove Agricultural Assoc in Groton MA

Her motto: "Any day in the saddle is probably better than just about anything else."