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."
Review :
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
