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back door, riders can experience a taste of the past as they drift slowly past spectators and crafters lining the Sperryville streets.
Beneath the straw hat, and under the bow tie, one may recognize the driver, Remington’s Ed Clark or carriage restorer Earl Bercier or his wife, Cathy. Mr. Lagasse, himself, may be tugging on the reigns or nudging old Dyna into movement.
“The kids love the rides." Mr. Lagasse said, adding that most anyone enjoys the open air atmosphere and rhythm of the carriage.
Mr. Lagasse, orginially from Connecticut, but now making his home in Amissville, has found his 20 years experience in carriage rides a new attraction to those below the Mason Dixon Line.
“We sell all over the United States,” Mr. Lagasse said, familiar to most northern communities.
Besides giving private romantic carriage rides, sleigh rides in winter, carriage rides at weddings, atmospheric rides in Little Washington and participation in festivals such as Washington’s Fourth of July celebration and the Sperryville Apple Harvest Festival, Mr. Lagasse sells old wagons after they are restored, taking anywhere from one week to several months, by Bercier.
Journey’s End Farm, his Amissville home, houses 25 carriages and sleighs, from the elegant wagonette used for the Apple Harvest Festival to covered surreys and wicker sleighs.
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