A Mudshow Season

My mother Nancy Holden Plunkett Trumble passed away today at St Vincent's Medical Center in northwester Pennsylvania. She was in her lifetime a superb horsewoman, a respected judge of hunters and jumpers, an oustanding teacher and the first person I ever heard of to have Jack Russell Terriers. From the time she graduated from Cornell University until her death she was in one sense or another an equestrian. She was also a great mother and grandmother, and no distance was too far to drive to visit the circus lot. I miss her already.