From the beginning

I have so enjoyed reading the letters and comments from other charter subscribers. I may be taking some liberties assuming that I am a member of this elite group since my “official” subscription copy started with EQUUS 3.

I was in college at the time and on a very tight budget when the invitation hit my mailbox. There wasn’t much money for extras like a magazine, but I was so intrigued with the type of content EQUUS promised that I couldn’t resist. And here I am all these years later, still receiving my favorite magazine. It was everything as promised and then some. Laural McPhillips Hastings, Michigan

I just want to add my name to all who have written in to share their long relationship with EQUUS. I was a relatively new horse owner then, eager to get quality information from one source. I still have my battered, yellowing copy of EQUUS 1, and although I’ve never missed an issue, I have donated batches of the back issues to 4H groups and other riding clubs over the years.

EQUUS has followed me through a marriage, a divorce, another marriage, a move across country, and many horses and experiences. I can’t believe I’m now of a “certain age,” but I will be a “horse person” till the end, and I’ll keep reading EQUUS wherever I am! Karen Fattorosi El Mirage, Arizona

I am catching up with several months of back issues and have now seen the multiple comments from original subscribers. I, too, subscribed to EQUUS from the very beginning--my first issue was sent to my address in Petersburg, Alaska, where I owned the only horse. I have since kept up my subscription through multiple moves to Washington, California and Oregon as well as multiple name changes due to divorce and remarriage. So it is likely that there are more than just 21 original subscribers, because it is possible that moves and name changes had obscured some of us along the way.

I still have my issues dating back to EQUUS 1, minus a few that were loaned out over the years and never returned, and I have reread many through the years. Christine Allison Deer Island, Oregon