Horses, horses, horses! Without our awesome equine partners, Edelweiss would not exist.  We get frequent calls from horse owners wanting to donate their horse. So, how do we choose to take or purchase a horse for the Edelweiss program? How do we decide if a horse needs to leave the program? Since we have been [...]

Have you noticed a strange new face around? If so, it’s probably me: Anna Schoppenhorst. I’m a senior at Eastern Hancock High School and am the new Edelweiss intern. I’m in this awesome new class at EH called Contemporary Literature/Service Learning. First semester we read books about social injustices and then volunteered in those fields. For [...]

I am Shirley Mascoe, Edelweiss Executive Director and the primary author of the Hoofbeats Blog.  A little about myself. I have been married to my husband, John, for 29 years.  We have four kids, mostly grown, Samantha, 25, Jordan 23, Shelby 19, and Gage 17.  I graduated from Purdue in 1985 with a B.S. in [...]