… I also have been a science journalist for 30 years. I’d been riding horses since I was 5 years old. Why did you decide to write about horses? Do you have a personal connection? The Sound caught up with the Massachusetts author by phone to talk about how horses have evolved and why they remain a continuing source of fascination. Williams will discuss “The Horse” and share pictures from her research at Water Street Bookstore in Exeter on Friday, Dec. It took her some 30 years to get back to the subject of horses, but in “The Horse,” she does so whole-heartedly, examining the complex ecological and evolutionary changes that made horses into the animal we know today. Williams is a science journalist who’s written books about the science of squids and a proposed wind farm off of Cape Cod. That experience formed the basis for “The Horse,” Williams’ new book about the history and evolution of horses and their ongoing relationship with humans. Whisper, though, was smart, sensitive, resourceful, and, Williams says, extremely polite. She grew up thinking that the animal’s evolution was simple, and that horses were more like working machines than companion animals. Those years changed how Williams saw horses. Williams was presented with plenty of surprises from the horses, particularly from Whisper, a half-Morgan palomino that was adept at solving problems and getting what he wanted - whether Williams was involved or not. By Larry Clow, illustration by Alyssa GrenningĪfter writer and journalist Wendy Williams finished college, she lived in a small horse barn in Vermont, where she cared for two horses.

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