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Lifestyle
Artists flee Annapolis for middle-of-nowherePublished 02/08/09
KENNEDYVILLE, Md. (AP) — Two Kent County artists are making art and making money, in nearly the middle of nowhere, and yet the two can be anywhere and everywhere when they want to be.
Associated PressNicole in den Bosch and her son Cy play at the former general store, where the original shelves for groceries and dry goods now store art materials, in Locust Grove, Md. Nicole and her husband Joe Karlik moved from Annapolis to the small community where they have converted a 19th-Century general store, home and schoolhouse into living and studio space for themselves and their son.
Joe Karlik and his wife, Nicole in den Bosch, turned a Civil War-era schoolhouse and former general store on a half-acre lot into a comfortable home and Locust Grove Studios, from which they send art projects around the country.
"We're two crazy artists," the 34-year-old Karlik said, "hiding in Kent County doing crazy stuff." Eight years ago, the two came to Kent County because they needed affordable studios and they...
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