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The Mesilla Valley Readers of Southern New Mexico Book Club (MVRSNM) will host author Cynthia Branigan on a free Zoom presentation 4-5 p.m. Thursday, June 2.
Email mesillavalleybookclub@gmail.com for the invitation.
Branigan is the author of “The Last Diving Horse in America,” which was published in October 2021.
The book tells the story of a horse rescue and the inspiring story of how the horse and the rescuer were each profoundly transformed by the other.
Here is what amazon.com said about the book: “It was the signature of Atlantic City’s Steel Pier in the golden age of ‘America’s Favorite Playground’: Doc Carver’s High Diving Horses. Beginning in 1929, four times a day, seven days a week, a trained horse wearing only a harness ran up a ramp, a diving girl in a bathing suit and helmet jumped onto its mighty bare back, and together they sailed 40 feet through the air, plunging, to thunderous applause, into a 10-foot-deep tank of water. Decades later, after cries of animal abuse and changing times, the act was shuttered, and in May 1980, the last Atlantic City Steel Pier diving horse (Gamal) was placed on the auction block in Indian Mills, New Jersey.”
Her professional involvement with the welfare and protection of animals began in 1974 when she began volunteering with author Cleveland Amory and his organization, The Fund for Animals, according to http://makepeacewithanimals.org/cynthia-branigan/. In 1977, she became a full-time staff member. Through the fund, she set up adoption centers across the country for over 10,000 wild burros and mustangs rescued from public lands in the west.
Branigan is an award-winning journalist who has written for such publications as The New York Times, Equus and Dog World. Her television appearances include “Animal Planet” and “Good Morning America,” the website said. She is a rescuer of retired racing greyhounds and author of the best-selling “Adopting the Racing Greyhound.”
Branigan was educated at Franconia College in New Hampshire and the University of Pennsylvania. She shares a home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with her husband and their adopted dogs and cats.
Visit http://makepeacewithanimals.org/cynthia-branigan/.
