SIMSBURY, Conn. (WTNH) – Authorities are calling it one of the deadliest horse barn fires ever in the U.S. A massive fire swept through Folly Farm in Simsbury Thursday killing 24 horses. The fire ...

Simsbury’s Folly Farm has held many different functions over the last century. When it was owned by John Ellsworth, who formed the farm from three smaller farms approximately 100 years ago, it served ...

I remember walking into the cool, dark barn. It smelled, like barns do, of hay, and horses. My daughter, Kate, was maybe 6 years old. We were at a horse show at Folly Farm in Simsbury. I’d been riding ...