"A Song for the Horse Nation"  should have museum visitors singing the praises of Smithsonian Institution curator Emil Her Many Horses, a member of the Ogalala Lakota nation. The 98 artifacts in the exhibit include the horse mask shown here.
     There's also a narrative about the history of the horse in the New World, which begin and ends before there even was a New World. Originally native to the American continent, horses became extinct there. They were reintroduced first by the Spanish, the by the French, the Dutch and the English.
     The traveling exhibits opens for an eight-month stay at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City, after which it will move to the Smithsonian until 2013. Then it is expected too tour the country.
     You can read more about the exhibit in the Mid-Atlantic Horse section in the Lancaster Farming edition due in your mailbox tomorrow. Or there's an online story you can read here:   http://blog.nmai.si.edu/main/a-song-for-the-horse-nation/
     Ohio voters on Tuesday cast a decisive vote for the establishment of an animal care standards board that will determine minimum standards of care for farm-raised animals. The vote was 64 percent in favor of a board, and 36 percent against. The board would consist of agricultural, consumer and technical members. For the full story, read the Lancaster Farming issue due in your mailbox tomorrow, or read the article by staff writer Chris Torres here: http://www.lancasterfarming.com/node/2370
     Baby has her cousin over for lunch.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH8MIKni3Dg