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Isn’t there a proverb, about one small pebble setting forth endless ripples in a pond?
When contemplating the life and times of Eve Fout, who died Wednesday Dec. 5,1 thought of how many lives she influenced in her span on this earth — through tiie Middleburg Orange County Beagles, a junior-based foxhunting pack she founded, through the American Academy of Equine Art, which she founded, and through the Piedmont Environmental Council, which she helped found
Everyone who admires the unchanging beauty of our Piedmont region owes a tip of the hat to Eve’s foresight in putting into place, through the PEC, instruments to protect the area before development damage was done.
I count myself fortunate and say a little prayer every time I drive down a country road and am swept away by the beauty of our landscape.
For those who are uninformed about the beagle pack — as I was when I moved here in 1990 — let me set you straight on their function, as Eve kindly did for me.
Crisply and without compunction, she informed me of this: MOC is a pack hunted from horseback for the purpose of introducing children to the sport of foxhunting behind the slightly-slower beagles. Make that for juniors only, escorted, if must be, by adults.
Eve ruled that my daughter Betsy, alreacty in her mid-20s, did not qualify as a “child” and I, therefore, was not invited to hunt. Unless, of course, I borrowed an actual junior to accompany.
And what hard-riding juniors the pack has produced, thanks on no small measure to the unflagging attention of Eve Fout. She continued to house the pack and follow along right up to , her death. ° " My friend Bonnie took her niece hunting with the beagles this season. Bonnie, mounted on a green filly off the track, said that Eve, always mindful and considerate, sought her out and told her to tuck in right behind her steady, experienced horse.
As for the equine artists, what a wonderful mold was created through the AAEA — a handsome gallery for displays at the Kentucky Horse Park, traveling exhibits and promotional assistance for group members.
Eve Fout, herself was a toprung artist, schooled in art by the very best, including the legendary Paul Brown.
I am a huge fan of Eve’s magnificent bronze sculptures. My first close-up inspection happened one winter when Eve’s daughter Nina was conditioning her event horses in Aiken, S.C., based at a stable a short walk from where I was staying for a few weeks.
I fell into the habit of showing up at feeding time to spend a little face time with Nina’s nice horses, lending a hand when needed.
One afternoon, an overly busy Nina asked me to pick up some of her mother’s bronzes
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