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Ms. Merry Clark has just released her third book, “Dandelion Roots Run Deep”, which she co-wrote with her mother, Merrill. She also wrote "Waxing Pathetic" and "Stripping Down to the Bones"
"Dandelion Roots Run Deep" was started by Merrill and finished my Merry. Merrill developed Alzheimer's in 2010 and wasn't able to finish the book. The theme of the book is tenacity which Merry witnessed in her parents in no uncertain terms. They put every bit of money, time, and energy they had into an organic farm in the 1980s before anybody knew what organic meant.
Besides slowly producing stellar books, Merry is also a sometime comedian and landscape photographer. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from the University of Michigan in 1989, and went on to independently produce and direct theater productions in Ann Arbor and Boulder, Colorado. She then commenced an acting career in Hollywood, appearing in theater productions as well as commercials. Over the years, Ms. Clark has been a high school English teacher and has spent considerable time in the fitness industry. Ms. Clark has taken care of her mother for six years in rural Michigan while fixing up the cabin and farmhouse, remnants of the organic farm her parents started in earnest in 1980.
As an ovarian cancer survivor and caregiver, she is concerned with addressing women's health issues. As a former teacher, she is deeply concerned with the glaring inequities in the American education system.
Merrill Ann Clark grew up in Elgin, Illinois and graduated from St. Charles High School, then went on to earn a Bachelor of Science in Communications from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. There, she met her husband, John Clark, and they were married in 1959. They moved to Berkeley, California, where John earned a PhD in bio-chemistry and then they took a road trip to Boston where John had a position waiting for him at MIT. They had their first child in Boston and then John got a job at Notre Dame and they moved to Michigan, living in various locations until starting a 1500 acre organic farm in Cassopolis Michigan in 1980. Merrill was a devoted environmental activist, and always made sure her voice was heard. She was then on the National Organic Standards Board in 1992 which was the first group of people to determine what the term "organic" would really mean.
Merrill was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2013, and has been at Edgewood Health and Rehab in Three Rivers since 2021.
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