RICHMOND, Va. -– Before she landed in Virginia, native born Texan Jennie Lynn Price, 24, traveled across the country from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic on a quest to finish college. She hopes to pursue a career in print journalism, and currently works for the Gloucester-Matthews Gazette-Journal.
Price was born in Texas but raised in Duluth, Minn. She attended the University of Wisconsin-Superior and the University of Minnesota-Duluth before she was in an accident that sprained both her ankles. With no one to help her, Price had difficulty attending school full-time. Instead, she concentrated on her job as assistant manager to an independent record store called Electric Fetus.
Price met her husband, Joshua, while she worked in a small restaurant called Nutty Megs in Duluth, Minn. in 2004. They married on June 14, 2008. Her husband is in the Coast Guard, which led them to move to Gloucester, Va. They commute separately from Gloucester to Richmond every day to attend Virginia Commonwealth University.
“VCU is the closest four-year college that we’re willing to drive to that has the program we are interested in,” her husband said. Price is a print journalism major, while her husband is a broadcast journalism major.
Price’s business experience allowed her to create her own business – Olive Bunny Handmade – where she makes recycled journals and one-of-a-kind stuffed animals to sell through Electric Fetus stores and her online Etsy.com shop. Price enjoys real film photography and fixing old furniture from thrift stores. She also screen prints on a Japanese Gocco printing machine, on which she made her own wedding invitations.
“Mostly, I like to learn how to do hands-on things and be self-sufficient,” Price said.
Price said if she had her own show, she would name it “Parts on Hand,” where she and her dad would go out to a garage and build something entirely from the products in the garage.
Price’s husband describes her as “ambitious, motivated and willing to try anything.”
“She wants to be an expert in a lot of different things from sports to writing to sewing to cooking to working on cars,” her husband said. “She’s succeeded in most of the things she’s tried.”
Price works for the Gloucester-Matthews Gazette-Journal. She describes her position as “the one that does everything.” She has had experience making plates in the print room, copyediting, proofreading and writing small stories.
Price currently resides in Gloucester, Va. with her husband. They have a two-years-old dog named Mabelle that they rescued from the Humane Society, and a 10-year-old black housecat named Frances, who Price says is “extremely needy.”
Price has the ambition to try anything and everything like Wonder Woman. She might not have super-human strength like Wonder Woman, but she would not mind taking the role.
“I would have to be a superhero in the tradition of Wonder Woman, you know, snappy outfit and tall boots,” Price said. “No invisible airplanes though. That’s a little silly.”
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