"Prisbrey's reasons for creating her environment are diverse and complex, but she was motivated in part by the tragedies that she suffered throughout her life, including the sudden ending of her childhood and her marriage at age fifteen to the 52-year-old, ex-husband of her eldest sister; her later separation from him with seven children to support on her own; her husband's death and the subsequent deaths of fiances and boyfriends; her marriage to Al Prisbrey, who was later killed in a car accident; the deaths of her brothers and sisters; and then the tragic and agonizing deaths of six of her seven children, who died of cancer or heart disease"
Page 189, Daniel Wojcik, "Outsider Art, Vernacular Traditions, Trauma and Creativity"
Western Folklore, Vol. 67, No. 2/3, Special Issue in Honor of Michael Owen Jones (Spring - Summer, 2008), pp. 179-198 (20 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2547491
"Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village" - Wikipedia
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