This letter is in regards to Amy Calder’s Oct. 27 column, “Reporting Aside: Waterville buggy was a reminder to take foot off the gas, find a slower pace“.

My concern has to do with the “old, black horse pulling a buggy.” If you would look closely at this horse you would, I hope, note that this horse is quite thin. These buggy horses routinely trot many long miles to and from their home farm, every day, mostly on pavement. Many are underfed. A small bucket stuffed with a couple of handfuls of hay does not feed the miles that go under those hooves every day.

To think that this is a romantic picture of a bucolic lifestyle is misleading and, quite frankly, very naïve.

Mary Cockburn

Penobscot