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In the early days of our research we were offered by Eldress Bertha Lindsay and Eldress Gertrude Soule, a shop in Canterbury Shaker Village. We opened the first basket shop in a Shaker village in 90 years. For many years we made baskets on original molds at the village while we searched for more of the secrets of the lost craft. On July 4th, 1976 we opened a small shop that I had built in the Sanbornton, NH woods. There we would make baskets for the remainder of the 25 years Martha Wetherbee and I would work together. In the early 80s we were discovered by the American press. We had cover stories in Early American Life Magazine, and center fold articles in Country Home, Country Living and several other national magazines. We were on the map and everything came to us after that.

Primary location: Hohenwald United States