Each day, Boothbay Region High School (BRHS) senior Harriet McKane arrived at Burke's Island Farm with a goal. Her trainer, Amy Reny’s, new horse Crash needed to be broken in for riding, and she was going to help do it.
Then, one day, it happened. She climbed on Crash’s back for her first ride. “It was exciting to see all our hard work pay off,” McKane wrote in an email to the Register. McKane is one of the participating students in BRHS’s mentorship program, which allows high schoolers to get school credit while working in the community.