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The North Star was first established in 1807 by an expatriate from Connecticut. Ebenezer Eaton arrived in northern Vermont by ox sled, bringing his family and a printing press to Danville, the newly settled seat of Caledonia County. The North Star emerged as a four-page weekly covering local, national and international news. In 1881 the business was sold out of the Eaton family, and on May 9, 1889 a devastating fire destroyed the press, the town hall and 36 buildings on and near the Danville Green. One hundred years later, The North Star was re-established as a monthly community newspaper, and its pages were devoted to the “reinforcement of the value of community” by publishing stories from a wide range of interests and writers. Terry and Kathy Hoffer and Suzanne and Tim Tanner, |
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Pottery from the Ground That He Stands on - Harley Strader |
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Harley Strader is a potter. As he moves through his compact studio and display room on the gravel road between East Cabot and Peacham, he describes pottery with a long and a local view. His education in art history and experience using his bare hands in Vermont’s soil give him an understanding of - an appreciation for - the ancient technology of pottery and the opportunity that he finds to make it distinctively local. This is no chain store kitchenware. He calls it Songbird Pottery. Strader tells of the development of |
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pottery from cuneiform writing on clay tablets, which were broken, buried and burned when their producers were overrun and their cities destroyed. The records of ancient Sumeria, Akkadia, Babylonia and Persia were uncovered 6,000 years later by archaeologists, and the shards were broken but legible. Gradually, woven baskets were waterproofed with clay pressed between reeds, and at some point they, too, were burned or fired, and pottery as a utilitarian object in the household was born. |
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Photos By: North Star Monthly Strader prides himself on his pottery design and its color. He uses a stoneware base, and then he likes to develop a final glaze using local clays and ground granite, wood ash or other materials that are local. His work ties the ancient process of pottery-making to the Peacham ground that he stands on. He calls it Songbird Pottery. |
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ESTABLISHED 1807 |
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RE-ESTABLISHED 1989 |
