Historic Clayborn Temple Burns

We had a tragedy this week in Memphis when Clayborn Temple burned down. I covered the fire for Associated Press.

The historic Clayborn Temple, a landmark from the civil rights movement with ties to Martin Luther King, caught fire Monday, April 28, 2025, in Memphis, Tennessee.

As a photojournalist in Memphis, I have had to cover many painful things over the years. There is nothing like hearing the wailing and mournful cries of people in pain at a news scene. It stays with you forever. It can be hard to pick up my camera and document it. But I do. As I explained to someone this week, just as important as showing the burning building, as a storyteller, I need to show that this isn’t just a building; this building meant something to people. Sharing and showing the grief and pain of the people who came to the scene helps people see how important and sacred this place is.

Sadyya Rockett-Miller and her husband Andre LeMoyne Miller prayed their way through their grief and anger outside of the historic Clayborn Temple on Monday. Andre is asking God to help him and deliver him some peace. Miller’s father had a connection to the Civil Rights Movement and Clayborn Temple.

The neighborhood folks worshiping at Clayborn Temple over the years.

Carolyn Michael-Banks, founder of A Tour of Possibilities in Memphis, Tn. gives black history-focused tours. I did a story about her and her tours in Memphis Magazine last fall. Clayborn Temple and its history is a highlight of the tour. She reached out to me after the fire and said “ This incident has made me more committed to what I do. If you know the history, fire can’t destroy it. “

https://www.karenpulferfocht.com/blog/2024/11/1/a-tour-of-possibilities

The Clayborn Temple has been under renovation for a few years. For more information https://clayborn.org/

CBS NEWS did a nice job covering the story. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tennessee-church-fire-mlk-civil-rights/

CHASING BUTTERFLIES

CHASING BUTTERFLIES

CHASING BUTTERFLIES

Every year Memphis attracts thousands of visitors looking for good hosts. They need a safe place to rest and a little sweet treat to fuel their journey.

Memphis is known for its hospitality and why should this be any different?

Monarch butterflies, the beautiful, perhaps taken for granted orange-and- black winged insects, are looking for places to stay.

Monarchs are facing extinction.  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed listing monarchs as threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act in December of 2024. A year earlier the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classified the migratory monarchs as vulnerable.

We can help!

By offering up a little space with just a milkweed plant or two, or creating an entire garden targeted at pollinators, we can become excellent hosts. As they pass through, monarchs search for milkweed to lay their eggs and sweet nectar plants to eat.

Milkweed is the only plant the monarch will lay eggs on.  You can watch for the eggs on the leaves of your plant.  The tiny, hungry caterpillars that hatch will munch an entire milkweed leaf in five minutes.

The eastern population of monarchs are long distance migrators, the tiny insects traveling thousands of miles each year.  They spend their winter in central Mexico, they head back to the United States in February or early March when they will reach the Gulf Coast. This multi-generational migration will take them all the way north where they may go as far as the border of Canada before turning around and heading all the way back to Mexico again for the winter.

Migrating monarchs can live up to nine months, but non-migrating monarchs just live a few weeks.

Jill Maybry with the Memphis Botanic Garden, has been chasing butterflies while growing milkweeds and providing food for wild monarch butterflies for over twenty years. She raises wild monarchs in protective butterfly nets and releases them once they emerge.

Jill has experience with which milkweed to plant for the best success. She likes common milkweed, (Asclepias syriaca ) and showy milkweed, (Asclepias speciosa) saying these are the most-preferred perennial milkweeds by the monarchs and that they grow well in Memphis.  But she warns “be aware that these may be a little untidy looking for formal gardens. These plants are earlier to emerge in spring from winter dormancy than many other milkweeds, so they are often the only milkweed that migrating monarchs can find when they pass through the Memphis area in spring. The monarch butterflies eagerly lay their eggs on the emerging foliage of these plants. These milkweeds can be planted in either fall or spring.”

Sydney Calderon from Lichterman Nature Center agrees that native milkweed species will always be the best. “Monarch caterpillars eat exclusively milkweed, so having those plants is vital.” Lichterman has a native plant sale April 11 and 12 where they will have several native milkweeds and butterfly milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa).  Sydney says “"Tropical" or non-native milkweed varieties you'll find at major retailers are not recommended because they do not go dormant like the natives do, which could interrupt the butterflies' life cycle. To support monarchs further, planting flowering native plants that bloom later in the summer is important to provide food for the emerging butterflies. They're not picky in their adult form, so any (preferably native) showy flowers will do!”

Bart Jones who helps count locally for North American Butterfly Association says monarchs tend to fly quite high in the sky for large parts of the day and only come to the ground to feed when abundant wildflowers are spotted or they've run out of energy or roost overnight.

In the spring, as they first migrate north, they might enjoy Phlox and Blue Star and on their southern fall migration something like Blazing Stars and Goldenrod will attract them.

The primary threats to our fragile monarch friends are habitat loss as we pave over farmland to make room for more suburban and urban growth, millions of acres of milkweed have disappeared from our landscape. There has also been an increase in pesticide exposure, storms and extreme weather. 

For decades, their populations have been declining.

The Xerces Society reports that the eastern population has declined by more than 80% since the 1980s.

There are still many unanswered questions and so much to learn about the butterflies.  Here are a few of the many resources to learn about how to help the mighty little monarchs and learn how to become citizen scientists or at least, to be good hosts as they pass through Memphis and the Mid-South.

To get more involved or if you prefer to purchase plants online, try the Milkweed Market at Monarch Watch at https://www.monarchwatch.org/ or go to Xerces Society @ https://www.xerces.org/ for Monarch Conservation News, or the North American Butterfly Association https://naba.org/ to become part of the community science effort to track and conserve monarch butterflies.

By Karen Pulfer Focht ©2025

This article recently ran in Memphis Magazine

https://memphismagazine.com/features/chasing-butterflies/

The Magic of Christmas Then and Now

For more than two decades, people have been enjoying a picture, a fleeting moment

that I captured one day, by chance, at Wolfchase Galleria on December 23 rd , 2002 in

Memphis, Tennessee.

I worked the early morning shift for the newspaper, and it was a typical morning chasing

the news. I heard on the police scanner that an armored truck had been robbed. It was

a couple of days before Christmas.

The world was slowing down, the holiday was approaching.

At a time like this in the news business, the team works like squirrels, gathering what we

call “evergreen” stories, stories that can run in the paper any time, with no news peg, no

deadline, or urgency. That way people could work ahead, and we could staff the

newsroom, which was staffed 365 days a year, with a minimal crew.

I got my photo of the robbery scene before many of the staff even came into

work at the paper for the day. I was waiting for the press conference to start to get the

details of what had happened. While waiting for that, I went over to see what was

happening with Santa at the mall.

I was always eager to photograph Santa and the children. I have always loved to

photograph kids, dogs, and the elderly.

The photo editors made it clear that they had had enough of Santa for this season—no

more Santa photos. But I couldn’t resist. Even if it would not get published, I wanted to

make photographs of kids with Santa.

As a professional photographer, you spend a lot of time photographing what other

people want. It is important to never lose your own voice. It is important to always

continue to shoot that which brings you joy too!

I patiently hung back with a long telephoto lens, watched, waited and shot sweet

children eager to tell Santa what they wanted for Christmas.

I felt sure I had some cute photos. I tried to make a hard sell to the photo desk, but they

were not having it. We really don’t need any more Santa photos this season Karen, they

said.

When I came into the paper to turn out my day’s work, I had what I considered a

magical frame. The frame appeared to have a little girl and Santa sharing a very special

Christmas moment. I had to make a case to get it into the paper. I remember Otis

Sanford, one of the top editors, pushed to run it. He loved it. It ran on page one!

The next day, Christmas Eve, I got such an amazing response from our

readers! People just loved the photo. They wrote in and called. So many people were

touched by the photograph. One man wrote a letter to the editor saying it brought tears

to his eyes.

There was just something magical and heartwarming about this photograph.

As a photojournalist, I have always said, that touching the reader in a way that influences

them, and makes them write or call, laugh or cry, or even better rise into action, has

always meant more to me than any award ever could.

At the time, people cut the photo out of the paper, and many bring it out year after year

at Christmas. When I am long gone, this photo will be one of the photos that I am

going to be remembered by.

I wanted to let the family know how much this photo meant to the community. I wrote to

them more than once but never heard back. People asked if I could do a follow up with

the young girl, but I was never able to make contact.

Now more than 20 years later, with the help of social media, I found Affiong Enyenihi.

She was only a couple of miles from where I took the photograph and living in an

apartment with friends.

So, what ever happened to Affiong?

Affiong Enyenihi was born to Nigerian parents. She was brought up in Collierville. Her

father is a doctor, and her mother worked with children. They are very private people.

Affiong has her master’s degree, she loves history and is teaching in an inner-city

school here in Memphis. She left the area for a while but came back. She loves working

with the students but it is challenging.

“I want to try and make their lives better. Try to give the children opportunities and show

them what there is out there for them. There is a huge gap to close,” she says. She is

thinking now about getting her doctorate.

For her entire life, Affiong has lived in two worlds. Her American world and her Nigerian

world.

“It is hard being looked at differently “she explained. While a child, she did not want to

stand out by bringing unique food to school and she wanted an American name,

perhaps Rachel. Like most teenagers going to school at Houston High, she wanted to

be like everyone else. She was shy. She always enjoyed children; she was a camp

counselor at St. Columba, a popular summer camp in Memphis.

She was also born into a wonderful Nigerian community here. Her parents have a

church community, and they share birthdays, anniversaries and other social events with

the Nigerians in the area. They love the American South.

“Nigerians like to share their culture” she said. But she still felt awkward when, as a kid,

she brought her friends along and they didn’t want to eat any of the food, and they

wanted to go home.

When you are young, you know that people are not living the same culture as you. She

remembers not wanting to be different, but she also appreciated her culture, and she’d

never want to leave it behind. “Not everyone gets to have two cultures” she said.

“I think I’ve always just wanted to be my parents’ daughter more than anything else.”

She will continue to enjoy dual cultures and stay close to her parents.

“The way my mom raised me was to find similarities with other people, even if people do

things differently, you can always find something in common.”

What a beautiful thought for this holiday season.

As for how they spend Christmas, “In Nigeria, the way we celebrate Christmas is

different, we go to church on Christmas Day, we celebrate with friends, we eat different

things, decorate and throw a party. We do celebrate Christmas; we have Father

Christmas. I think Christmas can be magical even without a celebration of Santa. “

When she was a kid, her neighbor had kept a newspaper clipping of my photo of her

with Santa. She knew the photo existed. But she really had no idea what it meant to

anyone else. Her mother has photos of her all over the house, but none with Santa.

That day at the mall, she was just a kid who wanted to see Santa. And she was

delighted, that her mom said yes, and I was lucky enough to capture that magical,

fleeting moment in time that reminded so many of the magic of Christmas.

By Karen Pulfer Focht ©2024

Kyndle Wylde Brings Home The Prize

"CBS Mornings" Mixtape Music Competition winner is Kyndle Wylde. The singer-songwriter grew up singing in her family's worship band at church and moved to Nashville to pursue her dreams of a career in music. Air Date: Sep 3, 2024 CBS MORNINGS

See her CBS Interview here.

https://www.cbs.com/shows/video/cR_ht260Rzz06Av7d27AwQ2lS_0gqhVC/

 On a bright sunshiny day in August Kyndle Wylde’s phone rang. CBS Morning News

was requesting a zoom call with her and the producers asked her to stand by. As the

screen came up from black, she saw TV host Gayle King on the other end saying the

words, “you are the winner!”

Kyndle sat down and put her hands over her face. She thought “Oh my God!”

Now Kyndle had a huge secret to keep. Especially from her grandmother, who she knew

would have to tell everyone in all of Bolivar, Kyndle’s hometown.

She had to sneak up to New York City for filming, without anyone noticing.

A few weeks later, on September 3, 2024, the show officially announced that the CBS

Mornings Mixtape Music Competition winner was West Tennessee native Kyndle Wylde.

Hundreds of talented people from all over the country competed, sending in their covers

of Johnny Nash’s song, I Can See Clearly Now.

“We were all blown away by her submission video,” said CBS Mornings host Nate Burleson during an interview. She showcased her skills to the world live in a studio in New York City and is now featured in their national promotional campaign.

“That was a win, not just for me, but also for Bolivar and for Memphis, where I cut my teeth and grew so much as a person and performer,” Kyndle, 31, said.  Kyndle performed and recorded with the Memphis Ukulele Band while in Memphis.  “When I did win, it was a big celebration for everybody. It was just a great day to rejoice with everybody.”

“We wanted to knock it out of the park,” she said of herself and her band. CBS was happy with how everything turned out and said this was a win for them, too. Before her performance, Kyndle said Gayle King came to the makeup room and was nice. She took time to meet her and thank her.

Kyndle, a petite soul singer with a powerful rich voice and incredible range, has always

wanted to be a performer and touts that she was singing from her crib as a baby. This was

the biggest national opportunity she has had in her career, she said.

When she performed the song, she belted out a soulful take on the tune that would

make any Memphian proud. Now, CBS plays it every morning.

“Everything that we are and grew up listening to, we just put it in that” she said in her

CBS interview.

It is not every day your dreams are realized, and the universe conspires in your favor.

Gospel-raised Kyndle Wylde believes she is doing exactly what God has called her to

do. She grew up singing in church with her grandfather, a preacher. “The first ten years

of my life, we were in church.”

She and her husband Adam Gowdy, also from Bolivar, are inspired by many of the R& B

greats. Kyndle does not like to get all the credit, she emphasizes. That is not just her. She

says “Adam has proven time and time again how much he loves me and loves what we

do and how much he supports this. He believes in it. Creatively we have melded

together, we have a vision and a purpose that we are aligned with. We are kind of like

Johnny and June or Ike and Tina Turner.”

“When you align with all that, that’s when doors open for you” says Kyndle.

She is humble and filled with gratitude this Thanksgiving.

Kyndle studied music at the University of Memphis. After living in Memphis for six years,

she and husband Adam, who is also her bandmate, moved to Nashville to pursue their

dreams. Adam has believed in her since they were teens, and for that long he has

been wanting the world to see the beautiful superstar that he sees in her.

In October she found herself on stage at The Grand Ole Opry singing a song with

Country artist Drake White. She was hired for background vocals on one of his songs

and he said, “I’ve just got to have you at the Opry with me.”

Once again feeling deep gratitude, she got emotional as she thought about the history

of that stage and what it means to perform there. The song they were singing was about

about faith, the gospel undertones. “It is really a powerful stage to perform on” she

said. “I’ll never forget it.”

She recently came home to Bolivar to perform for her hometown friends and family and

to thank them for all of their support. She wants to come back to Memphis to perform for

her Memphis fans too, and she wants it to be something special.

Kyndle has regular gigs in Nashville and Austin, Texas. “I do what I love and people can

see that. My job is to conjure the spirit in people and communicate truth. I do feel like

the universe is conspiring in my favor in a way, because I have aligned myself with what

I feel like what God has called me to do.”

She’s experienced a lot of growth this year. “There is a lot of synergy around who I am

working with now, all from West Tennessee, you can feel alignment, you have this gut

feeling, “I’m on the right path.”

For all of that she is very thankful.

UPCOMING PERFORMANCE:

December 1 st , Nashville, Analog at Hutton Hotel

The Twelve Thirty Club on Fridays when she is in Nashville

Story by Karen Pulfer Focht ©

Hear her sing! https://youtube.com/shorts/QAx6N4xjXPo?si=21uE32CCdqjsa_kt

https://youtube.com/shorts/hPa1-PQqp2w?si=FZOVFhUdmmwtPwfS

A Tour Of Possibilities

Carolyn Michael Banks

The Memphis Skyline

Beale Street, Memphis

Mississippi River

Mississippi River

Mississippi River

Blues Musician

Lorainne Motel

Tom Lee

Mississippi River

Slave Haven

Rosa Parks

Pridefully driving around Memphis, bragging on all things great that derive from the Bluff City, Carolyn Michael-Banks, founder of A Tour of Possibilities in Memphis, Tn. gives black history-focused tours. 

With blues playing on her radio, Michael-Banks, also known as Queen, takes visitors to sites of historical and cultural significance to African Americans.

She highlights the best things about our city.  But Queen does not sugarcoat the history.

Driving along Riverside drive, touting the majestic Mississippi River, the colorful bridges, the remarkable story of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the Pyramid, our amazing musical history and Beale Street, she reminds her guests, “if this body of water could speak, I can only imagine the stories it would tell.” 

Looking over the river, Michael-Banks offers a view of the city from a different vantage point. “On this body of water, two commodities were transported that changed the economy of this area;” she says as her voice tone changes, she pauses “cotton and enslaved people. On this same river, many used to escape slavery as well.”

For two-and-one-half hours, she highlights black owned businesses and the contributions that African Americans have made to make Memphis a such a great and significant city. She boasts about our soul food, blues music and B.B. King, COGIC, Stax, Robert Church and Obama’s visit.

But the guided historical tour also does not hide the darker side of the city’s history including injustice, segregation and racism.

Queen reminds Chicagoans Maryann and Reginald Marsh, touring on this day, that in front of them is the location where Nathan Bedford Forrest once had “Fresh Negro’s For Sale.”  Woven through the ride that includes various wonderful landmarks, magical stories of inspiring people and popular Memphis attractions, she also tells of people who lived in fear of lynchings, of city riots, a civil rights struggle and the Martin Luther King assassination.

There’s no doubt about her love for the city.  What she loves to share most is a sense of hope, optimism and deep respect for the people that came before her, the people like Tom Lee, Rosa Parks, Danny Thomas and Ida B. Wells, “the people who saw things that appeared to be impossible, but made them possible, in spite of.”

That is why she has named her tour A Tour of Possibilities.

By Karen Pulfer Focht ©2024

The Stax Documentary

A SPECIAL PLACE IN MY HEART FOR STAX

STAX ARTISTS THROUGH THE YEARS

Photo gallery includes: Rufus Thomas, The Memphis Horns, Isaac Hayes, Justin Timberlake, Barack and Michelle Obama, David Porter, The Memphis Horns, Booker T. and the MG’s, Sam Moore, Marva Staples, Charlie Musselwhite, Al Bell, Albert King, Steve Cropper, Jerry Lee Lewis with Ben Cauley, Doobie Brothers Michael McDonald with Carla Thomas, Kirk Whalum and the Stax Kids and Graziano Uliani.

SOULSVILLE: The neighborhood around Stax, and home to many musical greats!

It’s no secret that what made me fall in love with Memphis and made me want to stay in Memphis for so many years was the music. The people, yes, the warm climate, yes, the fantastic professional opportunities, yes, the central location, yes and the low cost of living, yes. But the music-- absolutely yes!

I‘ve always loved jazz and the blues. My father entertained me with silly songs any child would love, like Slim Gaillard- Potato Chips and “Flat Foot Floogie.” He went to an elite school in the northeast and had to listen to this “race” music secretly, as it was frowned upon.

Memphis is home to The Blues Foundation because of the rich blues musical history and heritage. Memphis and the Mississippi Delta are like Mecca for blues fans and blues pilgrims.

As long as I’ve lived here, I have noticed that Europeans were very knowledgeable about Memphis music, much more so that many Americans. Americans came to Memphis to see Graceland.  But it’s always been the Europeans who were savvy on the blues, R&B, and the soul music that has its roots in Memphis. The Stax Documentary explains this.

There is the Poretta Soul Festival, in Rufus Thomas Park the third week of July, every year, in Porretta Terme, province of Bologna. Graziano Uliani, frequently comes to Memphis seeking out new local talent for his festival.

I have a vivid memory of Rufus Thomas telling me how excited he was that they were naming a park after him.

It’s the music created here in this region that draws people from all over the world, to Memphis.  

In the last decade, Memphis has risen to the top of places to visit by influential travel magazines like National Geographic and Condé Nast . “Memphis is one of two destinations from the U.S. highlighted in Condé Nast Traveler's “23 Best Places to Go in 2023,” which covers 22 countries and six continents,” a Commercial Appeal story reported.

I got to know Stax artist Rufus Thomas when I first moved here from Chicago. Rufus captivated me right away and quickly became of my favorite entertainers. He was SO MUCH FUN! He was an amazing entertainer with roots in vaudeville. He could still get a crowd going with Funky Chicken and Walking the Dog, into his 80’s. I have many fun memories of seeing him perform on Beale Street. He used to say, “If you could be black for one Saturday night on Beale Street, never would you want to be white again.”

His daughter Carla, who still lives in Memphis, was also a successful Stax artist. You can still find Carla out buying flowers, or as a guest or singer at one of the many Memphis music events held over the years. Carla is Stax royalty. She had the good fortune to record with Otis Redding before he was killed in a plane crash in 1967.

Redding’s music is so soulful, it just pierces right into your heart.

As with many great artists, he died way too young at age 26.  Stax music was experiencing some real success when Redding and many band members died in a plane crash.

As a photojournalist in Memphis, over the years I covered the only survivor of that plane crash, Ben Cauley.  Other influential Stax artists like Booker T. and the MG’s, Isaac Hayes, Albert King, Marva Staples, David Porter, Steve Cropper and Sam Moore have all been in my camera’s viewfinder.

The documentary goes into the run of bad luck that followed Redding’s death, the assassination of MLK in Memphis and the signing of a bad contract by Stax owner Jim Stewart, who in a very Memphis way, trusted the people he was working with, and in the end, the trials of Stax record executive Al Bell.

By the time I had come to Memphis, Stax had closed. But there was an appreciation for the Stax contribution to Memphis music legacy.

The documentary helped me appreciate more deeply the people, their experience and the music that is so deeply woven into the fabric and culture of Memphis.

I covered the opening of the Stax Museum and the music programs they had for the kids of Memphis. These programs are still teaching our city’s youth about the magical musical legacy here while cultivating the next musical generation. I went to New York City to cover the Stax Kids when they played at Lincoln Center and I also was on assignment when Memphis Music, including several Stax artists, Justin Timberlake and harmonica great Charlie Musselwhite were honored at the White House by Michelle and President Obama.

Wayne Jackson , and his wife Amy, were good friends of ours. He was one of the Memphis Horns.  Jackson and partner Andrew Love were on hundreds of Top Ten and Number One hits, gold and platinum records. They were considered the Rolls Royce of horn sections. Jackson fully appreciated the experience and told about it in this short video I did before he passed away. He says “Memphis was just on fire! And Andrew and I were walking right down the middle of that street. We played on hit records every day”

Memphis is just such a musical treasure box that never ceases to amaze and entertain me. Living here you run into these folks here and there. Most of them have always been very accessible.

“Indeed, many musical luminaries either hailed from or resided in the Soulsville neighborhood,” writes Alex Greene in Memphis Magazine.

Even though I felt like I knew the Stax story and many of the players and much of the music, the Stax documentary opened my eyes with more intimate details, historical glimpses, and great storytelling that helped me appreciate what the artists and producers went through, good and bad to create and capture the “Memphis sound.”

By Karen Pulfer Focht ©2024

Memphis Photojournalist

The Memphis Horns- “We laughed our way around the world”

Kirk Whalum- Delivering Music Soul to Soul-

Wayne Jackson - https://www.karenpulferfocht.com/blog/waynejackson-memphishorns

For a really in-depth read, Rob Bowman, author of Soulsville U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records is serving as a consultant on the series. Soulsville, U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records: Bowman, Rob

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Wild Horses of Corolla

Grazing on wild grasses, acorns, and sea oats, walking along the sandy beach of the

Atlantic Ocean, nearly-extinct wild horses have been living peacefully for over 500

years.

It is not known exactly how the wild horses of Corolla got there, but their DNA indicates

that they are of Spanish origin. The original Colonial Spanish Mustangs could have

survived one of the many offshore shipwrecks in the treacherous Outer Banks or maybe

they were left behind by Spanish explorers.

For centuries stallions and their harems have existed on a most unique diet, surviving

through hurricanes and hundreds of harsh winters. In earlier times, visitors were allowed

to take home whatever they could round up. But not anymore, it is now illegal to feed

them or get within 50 feet of them.

When roads were paved leading to their remote part of the cape, their numbers began

to dwindle significantly. Many were hit by cars, including a beloved stallion named Star

who was hit by a car and killed in 1991. They have since found ways to keep the herd

safer. The horses now have access to over 7,000 acres, about 3,000 acres of public

land and roughly 4,000 privately owned, in a beach and marine forest area north of

Corolla.

Not everyone buys into the poetry of these majestic creatures. Their biggest threat

today is development. Not everyone wants to wake up to a horse in their yard or lay out

in the sun with horses gathering around.

“They are one of the oldest and rarest strains left in the world and are listed as a

critically endangered/nearly extinct breed” according to the Corolla Wild Horse Fund, a

non-profit that preserves the heritage of the Mustangs.

For more information on the horses https://www.corollawildhorses.com/

Video of the Wild Horses of Corolla