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PEOPLE: As a high school student, Mary Fuller McChesney was threatened with expulsion for identifying as a communist. “What I learned was that you can take ‘em!,” she said.   David Briggs

Mary Fuller McChesney is a sculptor and a writer. At age 93, she has written extensively about the arts, and her sculptures exist in parks and institutions around the Bay Area. I was first introduced to her art by Paul Elmore, who has a number of her sculptures at his Marshall home and who promised one day to introduce us. Aside from the dozens of works of art that cover her Sonoma Mountain property, it…