Margaret Cassidy won an international sculpture contest that offered her a three-year fellowship at the Villa Schifanoia in Fiesole, Italy. While there she began an association with master sculptor Antonio Berti, with whom she studied and assisted for several years while working on a sculpture for St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome and other major monuments in Italy. Primarily a sculptor, Margaret also developed new techniques for working with stained glass. She was a devout Catholic, and an avid archivist as well. Married to the love of her life, John Paul Manship in 1963, Margaret worked tirelessly to keep the Manship family artistic legacy alive, and was the last resident of Starfield, after John’s death in 2000.