#3 INTRODUCTIONS* (revised 6/10) "first of the four...she began our journey"

First of the four



Sarah Lindsey-Banks was raised in the tiny farming town of Nyssa, Oregon. After her education at the University of Portland, she accepted an internship at the Cleveland Art Institute.

Several years later, she received a call from the Harley-Davidson Company and an offer to lead the re-designing of their company stores and product introductions throughout the United States and Canada.

Sarah lived in twenty American and Canadian cities and towns during the next ten years, moving Harley-Davidson to the forefront of modern retailing and presentation to their customers.

Exhausted from the stress of the corporate cadence, Sarah returned to Oregon, married her high school sweetheart, John Banks, now a tax and investment attorney, and settled in an old bungalow in the trendy Pearl district of Portland.

You see, Sarah was not about being a corporate upstart scratching her way to the corner office. Sarah was above all, an artist and a gardener. As a child she helped her grandmother each morning cut off unwanted branches in the little Oregon family orchard. She packed the Mason jars with fresh tomatoes for canning as she watched the pressure cooker rumble over the gas jets of the stove top. Little Sarah picked the seeds for the springtime flowers from the wooden racks of the little town garden store.

In those career days of the screeching clamor of corporate demands, she would create and she would garden to find quiet peace near the soil of a spring morning. I had seen that face and those eyes many times in the warm days of May.

Gardening was their time and their peace.
Sarah Lindsey-Banks is one of them………