CELEBRATING 50 YEARS: FEBRUARY
SPOTLIGHT: OCTAVIA BROWN
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SOCIAL MEDIA: #TBT (THROWBACK THURSDAYS)
JANUARY 13TH: We're throwing it all the way back to the 1940's & 50s. Breaking boundaries and making history! Lis Hartel, an award-winning dressage rider from Denmark became the first woman to compete against men in the Olympics in spite of becoming physically impaired by polio in 1944.
After taking silver medals in Grand Prix dressage at the 1952 & 1956 Olympics, medical and equine professionals around Europe soon began to implement programs for riding as a form of physical therapy.
So thanks to Lis Hartel's hard work and perseverance she is generally regarded as the impetus for the development of therapeutic riding in Europe.
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JANUARY 20TH: This week for #tbt we're coming back across the pond to North America and jumping to 1969! On November 2nd of that year, 23 forward-thinking individuals gathered in Middleburg, Virginia to create an organization that would act as a clearinghouse of information about therapeutic riding. Thus the North American Riding for the Handicapped Association (NARHA) was created to promote safe and effective therapeutic horseback riding throughout the United States and Canada.
Can you guess who one of those 23 founders was?
