He was born at 8:40 a.m. on April 5. When he entered the world, the world greeted him as a soft ridge in Anderson County, South Carolina. That's where, in the first moments of his remarkable existence ...

It’d been weighing on him for a year or more. And when it woke him up at 3:30 a.m. about six weeks ago, he knew it was time. D.P. Lowther put on his clothes and got in his truck. He drove into the ...

A native islander steeped in the tradition of racing marsh tacky horses on the beach says he has been unfairly excluded from the Gullah Celebration's annual Marsh Tacky Run. In fact, he and his son ...

The endangered Marsh Tacky is about as fine a horse as anybody could want. Smart, tough and friendly, the Tackies have earned honors as South Carolina's official State Heritage Horse. Yet they are not ...

During centuries of isolation on the Carolina sea islands, the short-legged, sway-backed marsh tacky horses became perfectly suited for toiling long hours in the swamps and oppressive humidity. But ...

Watching the comings and goings of tiny horses that looked right at home grazing on marsh grass or galloping on the beach was “magical,” according to residents of Horse and Little Horse islands who ...

DAUFUSKIE ISLAND, SC (WTOC) - Hurricane Matthew is now part of Savannah and the Lowcountry's stormy past. However, it's also part of a very significant future. When that storm began tearing up the ...

Little Rosie isn’t one of a kind, but there aren’t many like her around. The pretty roan mare is a Marsh Tacky horse. There are only about 300 others of her breed in existence. A recent arrival to ...

The Coastal Discovery Museum has a new marsh tacky on loan -- a 7-month-old filly named Daufuskie Darling. A 4-year-old boy paced the horse paddock at Honey Horn midday Friday, scrutinizing what had ...

The marsh tacky horse races that drew thousands to Hilton Head Island’s beaches in recent years — but also caused friction with some native islanders — are moving across Calibogue Sound. The Carolina ...

He was born at 8:40 a.m. on April 5. When he entered the world, the world greeted him as a soft ridge in Anderson County. That's where, in the first moments of his remarkable existence, he laid in the ...