Whispers from the Valley of the Yak
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Even as a child Jacquelyn Tuxills world view was expansive. Born in Chengdu China of medical missionary parents as a toddler she escaped the final months of WWII with her family and celebrated her third birthday in India before obtaining passage to the US and settling in a rural West Virginia town in 1948. After graduating cum laude from Muskingum College with a BS in biology she worked in a medical research lab while her husband attended medical school; they later moved to Alaska where Jackie discovered a love of outdoor adventure and a passion for nature that led to a thirty-five-year career in environmental work. Ashes and Rivers a chapter adapted from Whispers From the Valley of the Yak appeared in the 2019 anthology True Stories: The Narrative Project Vol I. For the past three decades Jackie has made her home in Lincoln Vermont.