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V…. Vaughan: painting the “Last Year on the Farm” By Jeffery Sparks   “There are some who can live without wild things,” said naturalist Aldo Leopold “and some who cannot. Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them.”  Texas Artist, V.... Vaughan, knows all about this sort of progress. Suburban sprawl reached the edges of her family’s two-hundred acre, multi-generational farm last year. Then, construction began on new roads and a toll road adjacent to the property. Vaughan’s farm, (the place she has painted for the past thirty years), is vanishing into extinction.   "This reality hit hard," she explains, "I had expected to tell [...]