Las Vegas artist Melissa Henry dreams of a new community that lives in harmony with Mother Nature, a place where the world's greatest thinkers can ponder the world's greatest problems, a model for the city of future.
Henry unveiled her dream, and a plea for the money necessary to realize it, Thursday at a fundraising event for Nova Town and Sage Era Resort and Community, a 24-acre community envisioned for the middle of the desert near Jean, about 30 miles south of Las Vegas.
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About 50 people attended the dinner at the Stirling Club at Turnberry Place to see the artist's conception and hear Robert F. Kennedy Jr. rail against the environmental policies of the Bush administration.
Henry envisions Nova Town as a place with restaurants, lavish gardens, and movie theaters where visitors will get around in non-fossil fuel burning cars and carriages. The community would also host symposiums where leading thinkers in science, art, medicine, the environment and other disciplines can meet and discuss solutions to the world's problems.
"This is more than a big venture. It is an adventure," motivational speaker Douglas Cox said.
