A Good Turn: ; Potters Customers, Friends Help 30-Year Business Succeed
Charleston Daily Mail › June 08, 2011
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MEADOW BRIDGE - Jeff Diehl has very good friends. When Diehl and his wife, Donna, moved into the old Meadow Bridge school 30 years ago to start a pottery business, he needed to build a gallery on the back side of his new home. Some local men handed him a shopping list.
"Monday morning, eight guys are here to help me build this thing. And that was 30 years ago. They still come back," he said. "They all went to school here. They come in here and say, 'This is where my seat was. This is where the teacher's seat was.'"See the full content of this document
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A Good Turn: ; Potters Customers, Friends Help 30-Year Business Succeed
A friend with a metal shop gave him ceramic shingles for a shelter he built. The friend then welded framework for a wood-fired kiln to occupy that shelter. A potter friend in Wales has answered countless questions about wood-fired kiln construction as Diehl prepared to build his own.
Then there are his customers."We've been here for...See the full content of this document
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