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🗓️ 21 February 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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0:00.0 | On a finger-freezing December morning, I met up with my colleague Diana Hubble to do |
0:14.4 | something we'd been planning for a long time. |
0:17.9 | We headed out to Lincoln, Massachusetts, staying out with some regionally famous animals. |
0:23.0 | But maybe not the kind you'd expect. |
0:25.9 | Lincoln is a small town, home to roughly 6,000 people, and more than a few farms. |
0:32.2 | And when we pulled over on the side of the winding, two-lane road, we were greeted by a couple |
0:37.4 | of sheep and a llama. |
0:38.8 | And a llama's over there? |
0:40.6 | But that's not who we were here to see. |
0:43.8 | Guys, we were here for the ponies. |
0:46.8 | Oh, it's a pony. |
0:48.8 | It's a pony lover. |
0:49.8 | That's what it is. |
0:50.8 | It's really cute. |
0:53.2 | So we walk out into a field and are surrounded by maybe 50 of them. |
0:58.7 | They're beautiful and weird and arranged in concentric circles. |
1:04.1 | And I should add, none of them are alive. |
1:07.1 | Not that they're dead, they're just inanimate. |
1:10.9 | We've got vintage rocking horses, giant wooden hobby horses, spray-painted plastic ones. |
1:18.6 | Nextively, they make up one of the most unusual herds you'll ever see. |
1:24.1 | And within the community, they are legendary. |
1:31.3 | I'm Abby Peralt, and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible |
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