Stillpoint Farm Boarding Stable

Ed and Alexis Connolly have owned and operated Stillpoint Farm since 1989. They are also the owner/operators of Marketplace Cafe, on the main floor of Thornes Market, downtown Northampton.

Wedding portrait from June 2007 when Ed and Alexis's oldest daughter Cara married Jared Morse here at the farm.  They are currently living in Kittery Point, Maine with their three dogs (see dog page).

Here are Cara & Abby's MySpace links to watch videos and listen to some of their music:

Cara:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=58532194

Abby:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=130199100

Michael:

Link to the Amherst College soccer schedule:

https://cms.amherst.edu/athletics/teams/fall/soccer-m/schedule

 

Alexis and Callie

Abby, Cara and Michael 2007

Callie getting ready to come in (pictures with brief introduction)

Entomology of the formal names (I won't go into the informal ones, which are not always complimentary and certainly familiar enough to anyone who rides a mare not to need further explanation):

Kaleidoscope, as in grass stains and mud blending in with fur patterns of light and dark (see pictures below).

Originally Calliope, daughter of Zeus and chief of the Muses. In Greek, "beautiful voiced". She does have a lovely low wicker that I'm sure means 'Hello, glad to see you' rather than the more prosaic 'Carrots? Apples? Sugar cubes? Altoids?' but then again....

Calliopes are also the powerful mechanical steam organs that blast out tunes on pipes that what were originally train whistles in the old days while the wooden horses on the merry-go-rounds rotated up and down and round and round.

You didn't want to know this much about it, did you!

But since you're still reading here's a poem called  "The Kallyope Yell" by 'the prairie troubador' Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931):

  Proud folk stare after me,

  Call me Calliope;

  Tooting joy, tooting hope,

  I am the Calliope.

Satisfied