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In 1978 Nancy moved to an island off the coast of Washington state with her young family, where she and her husband Lewis naively planned to support themselves as artists. This is the story of their adventures together striving for an unlikely success. They worked hard for years to reclaim an old pea farm overrun with rabbits. Between hammering nails, weeding gardens, perfecting their art, and feeding their family they watched their land transform, and their creativity flourish. Their wild land became a splendid garden habitat; a refuge for themselves and for native wildlife ever flowing through.

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Nancy Spaulding has been a professional visual artist for over forty years, working primarily as a printmaker, and later as a pastelist.Life's unpredictability changed the path she had intended to follow. Rather than complete a degree in art education she le college with only one semester le to be completed and joined Volunteers In Service To America, the Domestic Peace Corps, during the momentous sixties. She and her husband Lewis served for two years, living rst on the Seneca Nation in upstate New York and and then on the Olympic Peninsula with the Skokomish tribe and low income families working in the timber industry there. With academia behind her, she dove into independent studio work.A er VISTA, the couple became avid hikers and she became a mother. All the while, art remained her passion and means of connecting with the world around her.She has been part of the arts community on the island where she lives since making her home and studio there.Coming from a family of journalists and letter writers, she has always kept a log of her experiences. Home in an Island Garden is her rst book.

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