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We can literally create a world... where Camelot, the Roman Empire, the Wild West, Shangri-la, the Tribal Nations, Victorian England, Pharaonic Egypt, Middle Earth, the Vikings, Rustic Hawaii, the Garden of Eden, Space Cities, and Santa's North Pole... all really exist. ​ We are not talking theme park. We mean Really Exist. ​ Creative Provinces presents a structure for creating the most enchanting communities you can imagine--a unique culture, travelway, industry, or environment--by a community of people powerfully organized as a group of private properties. And it gives hundreds of ideas, examples, and illustrations to inspire the reader to create ""Communities as Art.""

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Advance Praise for Creative Provinces-A New World of Enchanting and Empowered Communities With the author's grace and humor and the accompanying beautiful artwork this ""how to"" for a better world can be the handbook for a magnificent future. I highly recommend this! Walter Gurbo, Artist, The Village Voice and other venues Creative Provinces is built around an extraordinarily creative idea, and Haynes delivers a wealth of innovative examples that will enthrall her audience. BookLife Prize Review I have never read a book that encompasses so much individual imagination and envisioning - over a lifetime - than ""Creative Provinces"". Suzanne Beddoe, Creative and Performing Artist; Nurse Practitioner and Chaplain, ret., MSEd, MSN Haynes offers a thorough and well-structured blueprint for establishing unique, sustainable communities grounded in heritage and innovation ... [and] has done almost all of the preliminary heavy lifting in this thoughtful and innovative guide. Very highly recommended. Jamie Michele, Readers' Favorite 5-Star Review Modern living is quite often monotonous and hectic. This book will help you build your own Shangri-la. Highly recommended! Pikasho Deka, Readers' Favorite 5-Star Review A fascinating study of developing alternative communities that are more compatible and sustainable to its citizens. One example that Haynes gives us is creating a real Santa's North Pole. Think of the incredibly fabulous things we could do with that! Jody Hughes, Santa Claus of Butternut Valley, New York The only hope for Humanity is to have small, self-sustaining communities with a visionary center, and Haynes gives us a foundation for doing this. Her artful description of the many creative possibilities for ways to live together in the future belongs on the bookshelf of every creative person. Dean Roberts, entrepreneur of three manufacturing businesses and author of I'll Fix My Head Before I'm Dead, and other books Haynes vividly describes what inspired her to spend many years working on the innovative ideas developed in this beautiful and startling book Ginnah Howard, Author of Night Navigation and other books The concept suggested in this book is a call to awaken one's inner dreams, but an effort that is not easily achievable without a hope and perseverance necessary to achieve the desired ""creative province."" As in Granges that came into being post-Civil War, it only came about when individuals...found each other and found strength in numbers. It starts with a dream and the perseverance of at least one, to plant it with others who may have the same dream, and a new reality will be born. Roger Halbert, Past Secretary and Vice President of New York State Grange, and Past Membership Director for the National Grange Creative Provinces is an impressive work of original thinking about communities people might like to form and live in...a book that frees the imagination to consider what our perfect spot in the world might look like. I recommend it as a highly thought-provoking resource. Forrest Bachner, Author of The Colour of the Times -Margaret Shippen Arnold and the American Revolution Valerie Haynes' Creative Provinces proposes a most daring and timely concept of living deliberately and passionately in communities of our own choosing... Haynes makes us think about how we earnestly desire to live. When we desire it enough, we will make it happen, and Haynes' vision will be there for us. Gary Norman, Anthropologist, clergy, historian

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