By JESSICA FARRISH
The Register-Herald
(Register-Herald photo by Jenny Harnish)
BECKLEY, W.Va. — A “97-year-old Princess” from Hinton visited The Villages at Greystone recently, trotting down an aisle of admirers, showing off her pink shoes and hair bows.
Residents of the senior living community in Beaver gathered in anticipation, cooing as “Princess the Sunshine Maker” – she’s actually just 27, but closer to a centenarian in “horse years” – tossed her mane and tail and then stopped to accept admiring pats and strokes.
Princess, a miniature horse, traveled to Greystone from Rio’s Place, a mountaintop farm in Hinton that is home to the nonprofit Beyond Wishes, a group that teaches horsemanship to special education students. Volunteers also bring Princess, a therapy horse, to Greystone twice each summer so she can visit residents.
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