Check out this blast from my past!
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/155781-studio-pottery-by-robin-beckett A couple of weeks ago, Lillian Pelino contacted me from Huntington, WV with a picture of one of my morning glory cream and sugar sets that she picked up at an estate sale. She also shared this link to a collectibles website where someone had a whole group of my work available. Unfortunately, I didn't have the forsight to keep up with the mailing list of my morning glory collectors. It has been so long, I'm sure many of them have moved. I started making these before the dawn of the internet!The other interesting piece of this story is that Lillian is from Huntington which is where my father grew up. Traveling the 8 hours there via the curvy 2 lane US 52 and "super hwy" WV Turnpike from Winston-Salem at least once a year was quite a memorable ride I'd like to forget. They would turn my 6-12 yr old self loose to walk the 2-3 blocks to Ritter Park, the "central park" of Huntington. Who would think of doing that today?? Anyhoo... I don't have any relatives left in Huntington and my grandmother died several years before I started making pottery I consider quite a coincidence that we had that connection. She lives in the beautiful brick street area around the park I used to play in.
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