Vicki Pellar PriceVicki Pellar Price spearheaded and realized the Elizabeth Fries Ellet Interpretive Trail (EFEIT) 16 years ago. She is director of Writers Rising Up to Defend Place, Natural Habitat, Wetlands (since 2001). The 501 (c) (3) literary nonprofit is based i Eden Prairie. The Elizabeth Fries Ellet Interpretive Trail was a four-year project the non-profit undertook to create a permanent guide to Eden Prairie's history and natural biomes in a 125 acre stretch of untouched prairie, big woods, sedge meadow, oak savanna, and bottomland forest of the Minnesota River. The non-profit has partnered with the Arboretum on writing workshops and readings related to place and natural habitat with Minnesota writers Carol Bly, Bill Holm, Paul Gruchow, Deborah Keenan, Joyce Sutphen and Michael Dennis Browne and plant discovery walks with Shirley Mah Kooyman. Pellar Price has a BFA from California Institute of the Arts (Chouinard Art Institute), and MLA and MFA from Hamline University. She was a member of the Eden Prairie Human Rights and Diversity Commission 1997-1999, the Eden Prairie Historical Society 2007-2015, the Eden Prairie Community Education Partnership Breakfast 2004-2009, and the Eden Prairie Flying Cloud Airport Advisory Commission March 2015-16. Read More Read Less