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Jim McDowell, known to many simply as “the Black Potter,” is a ceramicist who specializes in stoneware face jugs.
Although cottage foods are often associated with farmers market vendors, immigrants have also been participating in this rising business trend.
The villages of the Erzgebirge were first and foremost mining villages, until the mines went dry.
Wayside shrines appear at crossroads, town and field boundaries, in city parks, front yards, and niches in old homes.
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