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By Community Concerts of Rancho Santa Fe September 21, 2021 A little bird told me there are…

Equestrian

Horsepark Development + Operations RFP Issued

09/19/2021

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By Phil Trubey September 19, 2021 The 22nd DAA recently issued an RFP for the development and…

Association Community Densification

SB9 and SB10 Are Now Law

09/19/2021

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By Phil Trubey September 19, 2021 It didn’t take long after easily surviving the recall election for…

Tennis/Pickleball

RSF Open Tennis Tournament Coming Soon

09/16/2021

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By Phil Trubey September 16, 2021 In less than a month, the RSF Tennis Club will be…

Community Financial Real Estate

The Covenant Needs a National Historic Designation

09/07/2021

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By Holly Manion September 7, 2021 As surrounding communities allow high-density development to encroach on the roads…

RSF Golf Club trees

RSF Golf Course Trees Still In Limbo

09/07/2021

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By Phil Trubey – September 7, 2021 401 The RSF golf course renovation project has been…

RSF Golf Club

RSF Golf Club Hits 528 Members, Highest in 14 Years

09/07/2021

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By Phil Trubey September 7, 2021 View from the 8th hole green on September 7th, 2021. Amazing…

Association Fire Protection District RSF Golf Club Tennis/Pickleball trees

RSFA Member Input August 2021

08/08/2021

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By Phil Trubey August 8, 2021 Following are letters RSF Association members sent to the Association board…

Art Jury RSF Golf Club Tennis/Pickleball

Golf Club Abandons Wind Wall Project

07/08/2021

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By Phil Trubey July 8, 2021 Those of you who have eaten at the golf club snack…

One of the best loved and most decorated authors of children’s books, Marguerite Henry was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1902. At the age of six, she contracted rheumatic fever, which affected her severely until the age of twelve. Not only bed-ridden for long periods, she was kept out of school and isolated from other children for fear of contagion. Pouring herself into reading, she soon showed a flair for writing. The author sold her first story at age 11!

Henry valued historical authenticity, and her books were meticulously researched. Most of them were fact-based, with her imagination filling out the stories. Through the years, Henry’s work earned prestigious Newberry awards. In 1946 she received Newberry Honors for Justin Morgan Had a Horse, the story of an Eighteenth Century American horse breeder who developed the well-known Morgan breed. More Newberry Honors followed in 1948 for Misty of Chincoteague. In 1949, Henry won the Newberry Medal, the top award, for King of the Wind, about the Arabian horse who sired the line of thoroughbreds we celebrate today.

After a lifetime of charming and thrilling children with her many books and stories, Henry died at age 95 in 1997 at her home in Rancho Santa Fe. (Courtesy of the RSF Historical Society)