On May 7 there was a buzz in the air about a woman with a pair of horses walking through the center of Emporia. Sarah Murphy, of Afton, was nearly a month into her journey to Robeson County, N.C. in protest of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline before returning to her Afton home. On Aug. 16 the journey came to an end.

“I Just wanted to take a moment and let you know my two horses and myself returned home safely from our 1,000 mile ride along the proposed Atlantic Coast pipeline route,” she said. “The Associated Press picked our story up as we neared completion and it spread both nationally and internationally.”

Read the article at Independent-Messenger by Mark Mathews 9/2/2019