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  • Of Trees and Roots and Names of Things

    When my grandpa Averill bought property on Wolf Lake in the Irish Hills of Michigan in the early 40s, he picked the choice lot for himself, and then parceled out smaller lots along the lake edge in a little barony he named “Averill’s Basswood Terrace”. (My grandpa liked to see…

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  • Boar’s head rhyton

    This is one of my favorites in the ancient gallery at the Toledo Museum of Art. I keep thinking about making vessels that can’t be…

  • Amphora pictures

    This is a rack in a ship’s hull, built for the storage of amphorae during shipping.

  • Learning about amphorae

    I’m really enjoying a conversation at the clayart listserver about the origins of the amphora. I’m printing all posts, and following all links. Here are some…

  • Entry for September 20, 2006

    I’m in the middle of week two at Eastern Michigan, and it’s very much the same feeling as post-workshop brain overload. I suppose it will…