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tress. After majoring in .■rench in college, she switched her sights from stage and screen and worked several years for various trade magazines, writing and handling public relations. Then she and her husband moved to Washington, D. C., where Esther was director of hospital publications for Georgetown University Hospital for five years.
After suffocating in the city all week, the couple would head for the Blue Ridge mountains on weekends. Passing through Sperryville on one of these escapes, Esther’s husband, an experienced horseman suggested that she satisfy one of her life’s ambitions and climb into the saddle at Rainbow Trails. “I was just terrible—an absolutely obnoxious, ride*-” «ahe recalled. “I wouldn't ride unless he held my hand. I cried and screamed every time the pony trotted or even started walking a little faster. I was just terrible.” But her husband wouldn’t let her give up. With his support, she found the courage to keep sticking a boot back into the stirrup, learning by trial and error under Alson’s supervision.
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