Shady Pines Sled Dogs – Take Magazine https://thetakemagazine.com New England's New Culture Wed, 25 Apr 2018 22:03:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.18 https://thetakemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-TakeFav-2-32x32.png Shady Pines Sled Dogs – Take Magazine https://thetakemagazine.com 32 32 #Nofilter New England https://thetakemagazine.com/igz/ https://thetakemagazine.com/igz/#respond Tue, 15 Nov 2016 00:24:46 +0000 https://thetakemagazine.com/?p=5669 From food to tattoos, flowers to hotels, fill your Instagram feed with some of our favorite New England IGrs. Here’s our list of the movers and shakers, culture-makers that are documenting their artistic ploys and political rants on your fav social media platform. Take a look at New England through Instagram because on insta everyone’s

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]]> From food to tattoos, flowers to hotels, fill your Instagram feed with some of our favorite New England IGrs.

Here’s our list of the movers and shakers, culture-makers that are documenting their artistic ploys and political rants on your fav social media platform. Take a look at New England through Instagram because on insta everyone’s a photographer.

@hotelonnorth

Hotel on North is arguably the most photogenic place to stay in the region. Made from two 19th century buildings in downtown Pittsfield this place is anything but the pits. Between the claw foot tubs and the keep-sake quality local trimmings and trappings in each unique room, this place is most definitely instagram-worthy.

@snowsculpt


Dave Rothstein is a snow sculptor and famed donut photographer. He’s a renaissance man of the 21st century and his Instagram account—which includes vegetables dressed with googly eyes, Spock holding a donut hole, and close ups of nature that’ll make you take a closer look at the beauty in your own surroundings—stands testament to that.

@thewadsworth

The Wadsworth Atheneum is the oldest public museum of its kind in the country, founded in 1842, but it’s aging quite well.

@breakfastxlunchxdinner

#NEGUSpublication 10/26/16 @ 7PM EST 760 Chapel St. c/o @grieretelosbo

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The tastemakers of Hartford, CT are on Instagram and it looks good. Follow this crew for event updates, artist profiles and all things contemporary and cool in Connecticut.

@sad13

honestly promoting this new record today feels like a misuse of time when there’s so much in my country to protest against and organize towards. but… to those of u telling me my record’s getting u through the hurt & disbelief of this week, i hear you & appreciate that more than u know. that said, THE SAD13 BAND starts its first U.S. tour tomorrow w/ some amazing bands. hope to see u there. this beautiful poster is by @cdirck. if you need help getting to the show safely or to get in touch in any way, you can always find me here or at sad13sadie@gmail.com excited to see all my friends throughout the country, excited to wear my new american flag-printed kicks & remind myself that this country at its best is about love & community, and not those other hateful things some bigots would have you believe tickets at sadthirteen.com

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Sad13 is the fierce, feminist solo-project by “frontdemon” of Speedy Ortiz. She just released a new album “Slugger” and did a reddit AMA in a Sailor Moon wig (okay, YAS). Sad13 aka Sadie is the ultimate celeb crush and my forever #wcw. Visit her account for all things pro-love!

@loopvintageupcycle


This Insta takes the retro cake in satisfying all your delightfully kitschy mid-century needs. We had a feeling you would ask, and the answer is yes, they have an Etsy shop: LINKY. The best part? You can invite your friends for a dinner party and brag that your 60-year-old Alvin and the Chipmunks themed glassware set is probably one of a kind.

@wildfolkstudio


Somerville florist, Caroline O’Donnell Instagram will make you want to die and be reincarnated as a flower in one of her arrangements. There is literally nothing more perfect than her subdued purples and pinks and muted earth tones, and the filters don’t hurt either.

@mollyhatch

Molly Hatch is a designer, illustrator, drawer, author, creator-I could go on. Her Instagram is painfully cute and framed in pastels that upon scrolling through will make your stress melt away. Beware, her flawless composition and frequent enviable tea parties will probably make you resent your own Instagram.

@matthealeyphoto

As his handle suggests, Matt is a badass photog with a knack for portraits. His feed is littered with humans-in-action AKA ~athletes~ and as you can see, pretty priceless game faces.

@Narrangansett

The #OfficialBeerOfBrunch is back!!! #ASwallowWillTellYou

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It’s beer season! Well, it’s always beer season. ‘gansett’s vintage-inspired cans will take you back to the days of pick-up ice hockey on the local frozen pond. Plus, the outdoors-y Rhode Island imagery will give you the feels for Fall.

@bostonhassle

Boston Hassle is your volunteer-run DIY info flow on everything underground and ~kewl~.

@shady.pines.sleddogs

Midweek motivation, on this day. #heroichearts

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Post-election stress got you feeling some type of way? Look no further. These dogs aren’t just cute, they’re also smarter than your honor student. These puppers are Sally Manikan’s small to mid-distance racing team residing in the White Mountains of NH and they want to be your BFFs.

@laughingloone

Laughing Loone is the pseudonym of Noel’le Longhaul’s online tattoo persona. Her Instagram is home to dark, ethereal masterpieces on fleshy canvas. She’s also in three bands. In short, there is no one cooler than Noel’le.

@pizzablonde

I've got my @dominos, I've got my ?? rosé, and I'm ready to go. #electionnight

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This is proof—blondes do in fact have more fun. Pizzablonde is essentially living out everyone’s dreams- ya’ll dream about cheese too, right? Right?! By acquainting her tastebuds—and in turn, our insta feeds—with every form pizza can morph into, (i.e. sandwich, spaghetti, and smore) the world can finally see all that pizza can truly be.

@shanelavalette

#agnesmartin @guggenheim

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Shane, hailing from Burlington, VT is #instaporn for black and white photography enthusiasts. The way he plays with the duality of shadows in his pictures will give you a chill and leave you feeling confused in a good way.

Top photo courtesy Wild Folk Studio Instagram page

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]]> https://thetakemagazine.com/igz/feed/ 0 One Wild Musher https://thetakemagazine.com/one-wild-musher/ https://thetakemagazine.com/one-wild-musher/#respond Mon, 17 Oct 2016 15:28:08 +0000 https://thetakemagazine.com/?p=5059 Turns out New England has a vibrant dog sled racing culture and New Hampshire has one of its wildest participants.  Sally Manikian is the musher, or as she puts it “The Top Dog”, at Shady Pines Sled Dogs, a small mid-distance racing sled dog team in Shelburne, New Hampshire. She’s been working with dogs in

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]]> Turns out New England has a vibrant dog sled racing culture and New Hampshire has one of its wildest participants. 

Sally Manikian is the musher, or as she puts it “The Top Dog”, at Shady Pines Sled Dogs, a small mid-distance racing sled dog team in Shelburne, New Hampshire. She’s been working with dogs in this capacity for over ten years, spending the past five years training her own team of racing dogs. Her recent life as a musher is defined by three things; irony, tragedy, and empowerment.

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Photo by Darleen Kelly Dumond

The irony of Sally as a musher comes from the fact that prior to her job as a tour guide in the White Mountains, she was not a self-described “dog person”. Sally didn’t grow up with dogs as pets, nor was she interested in training animals until she became a tour guide, and met her first group of special pups. According to Sally, these were “…dogs that listened better, dogs that were companions…dogs that were a bit more calm and had a sense of purpose.”

Sally was inspired by this committed group of sled dogs and decided she needed her own pack to train, “I didn’t have any property…I didn’t have any land. It was only after my mother died and I had to buy a family home for my brother, sister and I that I was able to finally get a steady place…I picked up my first 4 dogs from my friend Scott. I didn’t even have a dog box yet – I just knew I needed dogs. I had gone through this really transformative grief experience and this huge transition with my family, I was 29 and had become the guardian and caregiver for my two disabled siblings, I needed something that was only my own.”

Sally immediately plugged into the local and regional dog sledding community, scouring the musher’s version of craigslist (yes that’s a thing) and getting tips and advice from other mushers. This bit of peer mentorship creates a specific kind of relationship between mushers since, as Sally points out, “…we have to stick together because there’s not that many of us, yet we’re all competitors. It’s a very weird and interesting comradery. I was very supported by the musher’s community early on…” To be clear, no one was driving Sally to races or helping care for her dogs, but if she needed advice about wrist care, training regimens or peacekeeping amongst her pack, she had some friends to call.

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Photo by Darleen Kelly Dumond

It’s been five years since Sally acquired her first group of dogs while simultaneously taking on the responsibility of caring for her two siblings. Since then, her dog team has expanded, and Sally’s focus has broadened beyond the realm of competing in the sport.

Recently, she spoke at the Museum of the White Mountains about the current and historical circumstances for women in mushing. For this presentation, she asked women from all over the region and country about their dog sled teams, training regiments, racing stories and other questions outside the typically gendered or tokenizing inquiries that many women in sports endlessly face.

Sally is very invested in women telling their own stories in their own voices and deeply values the many, varied roles women play in the world of mushing. However, as Sally points out, mushing is a gender-neutral sport, so she tends to shy away from the term “female musher”, “I support every woman in describing her own relationship to her dogs,” said Sally “[but] for me the term “female musher” has always been uncomfortable because it’s extremely gendered and dog sled racing is a gender-neutral sport, making “musher” a gender-neutral term. In mushing, men and women compete equally so to say “female musher” is like saying “female person”…one of the questions I always struggle to answer politely is Who’s the top dog? and I always say Me! and they’ll say Wait, but who’s the dog in charge? and I’ll say I’m in charge…that doesn’t seem to sink in with people sometimes.”

We're baaaaaaaaack. Back to glare ice and wide roads. #sleddogs #sledtheeast

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Apart from the interactions with dogs and mutual respect and support earned through racing, Sally loves dog sled racing because of its inherent wildness. She has an affinity for hard work and the outdoors, particularly the less charted portions of the wilderness, “I love that feeling of the presence of risk in wildness and the confidence you build being out there…the allure of never quite knowing what’s around the bend.”

This ambiguity characterizes the future of Shady Pines Sled Dogs. Over the next few years, Sally’s team of dogs will change. Certain dogs age out and will be replaced by different personalities. However, Sally believes in emergence – the idea that you don’t necessarily need to know what’s going to happen next in order to ensure success. In dog sled racing, Sally talks about never quite knowing what’s around the corner during a race. Sometimes, her dogs will see something she never saw coming (a hidden bank of snow or fallen tree) and the dogs will catapult her forward over the unseen obstacle. It is this sort of rogue commitment that will move Shady Pines Sled Dogs forward, and keep Sally Manikian as its truly wild Top Dog.

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Photo courtesy Sally Manikian

Sally Manikian is the musher at Shady Pines Sled Dogs in Shelburne, New Hampshire. For updates and endless pictures of her team, follow Shady Pines on Facebook, Instagram and visit her website. 

Top photo courtesy Shady Pines Sled Dogs Instagram

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