PARK Magazine

COVER STORY
Bronze statue of Artemis, goddess of wild animals, from Guest’s Long Island home Templeton.
It now sits in a place of prominence at Guest’s East Texas Ranch.
much of her life, never got very cold. “It never occurred to me
in all my genius that if I moved up north in New York it would
be any colder. But who thinks of New York as a tundra? I never
did,” she laughs. “And so, after being negative 17 and with five
feet of snow outside, I said this is just not for me.”
She considered Tennessee, and then a friend mentioned
Texas, where she’d spent time in Houston promoting her
cruelty-free line of bags and jackets. Guest had never spent
time in Dallas, so decided to check it out. “I’ve never been one
of those people that research things endlessly. I make a decision
pretty quickly. Right or wrong, I’m a jumper. And so sometimes
you jump in a puddle and sometimes you don’t. And
even when you jump in the puddle, you wash yourself off.” She
went to Dallas, found a house, and when the pandemic arrived
shortly after, it turned out to be a good place to be locked down
- she could walk her dogs everywhere, stores and restaurants
remained open, and it wasn’t cold.
East Texas
Recently she found a 450-acre place in East Texas for her
animal sanctuary. Before leaving the New York location, Thirteen
Hands Rescue adopted what was left of the two hundred