Article: Take the plunge: Sonora Webster Carver wasn't horsing around.(Herstory)(Biography)

Imagine this: You and your horse leap from a 40-foot platform. Her mane whips your face and the wind rushes past your ears before you crash into a tank of water 11 feet deep. Scrambling out of the pool dripping wet, you emerge to thunderous applause and smell the sea air and hot dogs. Now, imagine doing this blind.

SONORA WEBSTER grew up in Waycross, Georgia, the oldest of six children. In 1923, "Doc" W.F. Carver put an ad in the paper looking for girls willing to travel and unafraid of heights for his diving horses show. The ad appealed to Sonora's mother, who liked unusual ads so much that she moved every time she found an interesting home for sale and filled those homes ...

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