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| Credit: John D. Morrison I recognize Robin Macy's platinum hair almost instantly as she crosses the White Bridge with a bucket of garden trimmings. Don't ask about the Dixie Chicks, I remind myself as she approaches. It's not that she doesn't like the group now known as The Chicks. It's that she was one. A founding member. But that's her past. And this—tending to Bartlett Arboretum, a 111-year-old paradise of trees, trails and meditative landscapes in the tiny railroad town of Belle Plaine, Kansas—is her present. On her way back from a music festival in the '90s, Macy took a wrong tur...