Stillpoint Farm Boarding Stable

Ed & Alexis have lived in Amherst for over 40 years. After starting several businesses including Marketplace Cafe, downtown Northampton in Thornes Market from '87-2010 (which is why they look familiar to people who can't place them out of context--'I KNOW I've seen you somewhere before!') they now devote all (well, almost all) their time and energy to Stillpoint Farm (started 1989). They have spent the last 18 months honing their skills in house renovation, barn renovation, fence renovation and eventually they may even finish sorting out on the tangled web of 'stuff' on second floor of the garage, with stints of spending quality time with one-year-old Sydney in Kittery Point, Maine. Alexis, January 2012

Ed, January 2012

Cara's wedding in 2007:

Cara married Jared Morse in a June wedding celebration here at the farm.

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

A bit of nostalgia:

Sophie Argetsinger, Janelle Higgins and Abby at Marketplace Cafe 2008. Photo taken by Steve Herrell.

Michael:

Second year Stanford Law. Graduated Amherst College May 2009 w/double major economics/poli sci major, Magne Cum Laude, elected to Phi Beta Kappa, prize for senior thesis in the political science department,  New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) All-Academic Team and Sportsmanship Team.

♪♫Oh you doll you great big beautiful doll♪♫

Abby, Cara and Michael 2007

Callie (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).

Callithump (as defined on www.wordsmith.org) a noisy, boisterous celebration or parade. Back-formation from callithumpian, alteration of English dialect word gallithumpian (disturber of order at Parliamentary elections in 18th century). A callithump is also what it feels like to hit the ground after getting tossed.

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....

Callisto: Also a name in Greek Mythology. A nymph, beloved of Zeus and hated by Hera. Hera changed her into a bear, and Zeus then placed her in the sky as the constellation Ursa Major as a way of granting her immortality.

AND:

Callisto is one of the four brightest satellites of Jupiter and the eighth in distance from the planet. Originally sighted by Galileo, it is the largest planetary satellite, and one of the best looking!

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