Gourd Girls
Priscilla Wilson was born in 1950. She grew up in Valdosta, Georgia and graduated from Auburn University in 1972 with a B.A. in English. She worked for the Atlanta Council of Camp Fire Girls for a year before making the decision to move to the home of her heart, the northeast Georgia mountains, in 1974. In that year she became committed to her life partner, Janice Lymburner.Wilson taught high school English in Dahlonega, Georgia for two years but soon realized that teaching was not her calling. In 1976 she started Gourdcraft Originals, Inc., and in 1978 Lymburner became her partner in business as well as life. The evolution of their unusual business - now known as The Gourd Place - and their coming out are the subjects of Wilson’s first book, Gourd Girls, published in October of 2005. Her career as a "gourd girl" has taught her to be a gourd artist, farmer, graphic designer, clay artist, and now author.