https://archive.is/20120717170234/http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19860714&id=p8UUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tuEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6971,3333633 ] In the late 1990s in partnership with her friend Vernon Hixson, she started a large wine vineyard called Evans Creek and Venture Vineyards, on a 60 acres parcel. [