A World of Color

nhlbruins: Tyler Seguin attempts the “Happy Gilmore” swing...

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:37:42 -0400

Tyler Seguin attempts the “Happy Gilmore” swing while waiting to tee off at the Boston Bruins Golf Tournament - but his teammates have a little something up their sleeves…

Healing Through Horses

Tue, 08 May 2012 15:09:24 -0400

Full of Grace Farm, in Hadley, Mass. offers a multitude of services. The horses at the farm are all either, adopted, or bought from auction or before they would be put to slaughter. They all have different issues, while some ailments are purely physical others have emotional baggage from the abuse they endured before coming to Full of Grace. The founders of the farm, Joanne Huff and Laura Litterer, work together to help the horses heal, as well as offering therapy for people using the horses as a guide. While therapy for people is one thing that the farm is known for, they also have recently begun using Equine Raindrop Therapy, where they apply different essential oils to the horses in order to help calm them and heal some of their physical ailments.

The barn also has volunteers who clean stalls and horses in exchange for rides. There are also camps during the summer and school breaks.

Litterer said, “Horses are full of grace, horses just being there, just running or being there is a moment of grace.”

Photo One: Full of Grace Farm is in Hadley, Mass. Photo Two:...

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:53:00 -0400

Photo One: Full of Grace Farm is in Hadley, Mass.

Photo Two: Catilin McGoldrick, a senior at UMass Amherst, cleans stalls at the barn in exchange for free rides. Huff said, “She’s doing me a huge favor, not only is she doing manual work, but she’s also exercising the horses.”

Photo Three: Full of Grace Farm is 1.7 miles from the UMass Amherst campus.

Photo Four: Joanne Huff, a co-founder of the farm, sits outside the barn after applying Equine Raindrop Therapy to one of her horses.

Photo Five: Oneida, an adopted wild mustang, spends her days eating. Huff said that since she no longer has to run twenty miles a day to find food she is overweight, and that soon she will have to be put on a diet.

Photo One: Joanne Huff, a co-founder of Full of Grace Farm,...

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:45:00 -0400

Photo One: Joanne Huff, a co-founder of Full of Grace Farm, explains to her girls therapy group that she wants them to brush the horses, and be aware of the reactions the horses have when they are touched in certain places.

Photo Two: Olivia, one of the girls in the therapy group gets a lesson from Laura Litterer on how to clean the hoof of the horse she is in charge of for the day, Raj. Litterer is asking Olivia where the “frog” is.

Photo Three: Litterer said, “Horses have healing properties, they can relate to you, you can bring your sob story to them, hug ‘em and somehow they’ll make you feel better.” This is the goal of Full of Grace Farm, and Addie one of the girls from therapy has learnt that from her relationship with Bob.

Photo Four: The girls group walk the horses down to an obstacle course in the ring for the next part of their therapy.

Photo Five: Litterer explains to Olivia the proper way to lead her horse, Raj, to the stepping block.

Photo Six: Huff instructs Addie about the faux water obstacle that she is supposed to guide Bob over. Huff tells Addie that Bob may be afraid of the obstacle and that she has to make him comfortable in order for him to walk over it.

Photo Seven: Another member of the girls group, Angela, gets frustrated when she is unable to guide her horse, Buddy, to the stepping block, she then tries to drag him and he freezes up on her. Litterer said, “These animals are enormous, and they’re going to mirror your emotions, whatever you give you get back.”

Photo One: Ardi Keim, a friend of the founders of Full of Grace...

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:20:57 -0400

Photo One: Ardi Keim, a friend of the founders of Full of Grace Farm and a massage therapist, rubs different essential oils into one of the barn’s horses, Bo, in an application of Equine Raindrop Therapy.

Photo Two: Laura Litterer, a co-founder of Full of Grace Farm, lets Bo smell the essential oils she is using for his therapy. This therapy is used to help relax Bo, and aide some of his physical ailments.

Photo Three: Joanne Huff explains the therapy process and order of essential oils to Keim and Litterer.

Photo Four: After giving Benny, a pony, the Equine Raindrop Therapy, Huff notices that he is more relaxed and less skittish around other people. Benny is not comfortable around people and Huff said, “He thinks he’s going to drop dead everyday,” this treatment is one method Huff has decided on to help him with his anxiety.

Photo Five: The different essential oils that are used for the Raindrop Therapy.

Photo Six: The instructions that Huff researched and printed out to help her through the process of the therapy.

Photos One and Two: Students from the High School of Commerce...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:19:00 -0400

Photos One and Two: Students from the High School of Commerce and UMass stand outside of the Capitol building on a “Twilight Tour” of Washington D.C.

Photo Three: Ben George, a sophomore at High School of Commerce, writes about the impact of being in the nation’s capitol for his journalism class assignment.

Photo One: Luis Brignoni, a junior at the High School of...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:13:00 -0400

Photo One: Luis Brignoni, a junior at the High School of Commerce, dances to a saxophonist on the way to the Metro station in Washington, D.C.

Photo Two: Students from the High School of Commerce and UMass Amherst, stand in the Capitol building during a tour on Saturday April 28, 2012.

Audie Cornish, a UMass alumnus, who is one of the hosts of...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:09:44 -0400

Audie Cornish, a UMass alumnus, who is one of the hosts of “All Things Considered” on NPR, talks with students from High School of Commerce and UMass Amherst outside of the Washington, D.C. NPR offices.

Caitlin McGoldrick, a senior at UMass Amherst, studied abroad in Limerick, Ireland during the spring...

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:00:00 -0400

Caitlin McGoldrick, a senior at UMass Amherst, studied abroad in Limerick, Ireland during the spring of 2011. While in Ireland she met Gary Fannon, an Irishman, and fell in love. The two have been in a relationship for a year. During the final semester of her collegiate career she is juggling her relationship, her studies, making decisions about her future, and volunteering at a local barn.

Photo One: While visiting Caitlin from Ireland during his...

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:19:00 -0400

Photo One: While visiting Caitlin from Ireland during his “rag week”, rag week is at the beginning of the semester where students have a break before classes start, Gary kissed her on the cheek at a party at her apartment, celebrating their winning game of “ruit”.

Photo Two: A vase of red roses that Caitlin received on Valentine’s Day are on her kitchen table. They are over one month old.

Photo Three: Gary sent Caitlin roses on her birthday and bought her another two dozen on Valentine’s Day when he visited her, the cards from the flowers are pinned on the bulletin board in her room.

Photo Four: Caitlin skypes with Gary in her bedroom one night, the time difference between Ireland and the East Coast is five hours.

Photo Five: Gary talks to Caitlin via Skype.

Photo Six: Caitlin shows Gary a stuffed pig that he bought for her, Gary lives on a farm in Ireland and his favorite animal is a pig.

Photo Seven: Caitlin has a collage of pictures in her room from when she studied abroad in Ireland and when Gary visited her over the summer on the wall in her room.

Photo Eight: On the bulletin board in her room Caitlin has two pictures from Photo Booth with Gary and his nephew Jack.

Photo One: Caitlin talks to her friend Hannah Ulshen in their...

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:15:00 -0400

Photo One: Caitlin talks to her friend Hannah Ulshen in their class “From Grimms to Disney”.

Photo Two: Caitlin texts Gary using a free application “WhatsApp” during class.

Photo Three: Caitlin pets Buddy, the horse that she rides at Full of Grace Farm in Hadley, MA. She cleans out stalls in the mornings in exchange for free horse rides.

Photo Four: Caitlin practices the guitar in her room before class on Tuesday April 3, 2012.

Fans in the student section lift cutout pictures of Dr. Evil,...

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:10:00 -0500

Fans in the student section lift cutout pictures of Dr. Evil, Dwight from the show The Office, and Rob Gronkowski at the UMass basketball game against URI on Saturday, March 2, 2012.

UMass Basketball players, coaches, managers, cheerleaders and...

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:05:00 -0500

UMass Basketball players, coaches, managers, cheerleaders and Sam the Minuteman prepare for the singing of the American National Anthem at Senior Night, the last regular season home game for senior players, on Saturday March 4, 2012 against URI.

UMass cheerleaders run around the court at the end of halftime...

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:01:00 -0500

UMass cheerleaders run around the court at the end of halftime at the UMass Basketball game against URI on Saturday, March 2, 2012. The Minutemen won the game 89-83.

The Newman Catholic Center is on North Pleasant Street on the...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:16:00 -0500

The Newman Catholic Center is on North Pleasant Street on the UMass campus. There are masses Monday through Friday at 12:15, Saturday at 9am and 4:30pm and Sunday 8am, 10:30am, 7pm and 9:30pm.

Sam Amos, a UMass graduate student in the Latin program, poses...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:13:00 -0500

Sam Amos, a UMass graduate student in the Latin program, poses for a portrait after receiving an ash cross on his forehead on Ash Wednesday, February 22, 2010, at the Newman Catholic Center. Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent, and the cross is a sign of penance for members of the Catholic Church.

Sam Amos, a UMass graduate student in the Latin program, prays...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:11:00 -0500

Sam Amos, a UMass graduate student in the Latin program, prays after receiving a cross ash on Ash Wednesday, February 22, 2010, at the Newman Catholic Center.

The Newman Catholic Center and Cafe is on North Pleasant Street...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:11:30 -0500

The Newman Catholic Center and Cafe is on North Pleasant Street on UMass campus. It is right next to the Theta Chi Fraternity House.

People at the Newman Center Cafe can eat, do homework, watch TV,...

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:27:28 -0500

People at the Newman Center Cafe can eat, do homework, watch TV, play ping pong and other games. The Newman Center Cafe is downstairs of the Newman Catholic Center.

UMass graduate student, Conner Blouin, plays ping pong with two...

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:24:48 -0500

UMass graduate student, Conner Blouin, plays ping pong with two of his friends at the Newman Center Cafe on Tuesday February 21, 2012.