Horse-Play at the Emerson House

Charlie Riggs

In Lincoln, Massachusetts, in the western suburbs of Boston, an odd phenomenon appeared around 2010: someone set out a group of toy rocking horses in a crop-circle-like formation in a grassy pasture along a country road—several of them antiques, but many of them plastic and of newer makes. No one really knows the true story behind the toy ponies’ appearance. But people have added to the menagerie over time, occasionally rearranging the group into different henge-like patterns. Locally, the spot is known as “Ponyhenge.”