(No, there was no Peter.) In 1948, they rented a tiny storefront on Meeting Street for $25 and Peter Pots became a real business. “That was the beginning of the pottery,” Greene said.

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The pots are made to be used.” Pottery continues to have a role in today’s technology-charged world because the ancient art form continues to serve a practical, as well as an aesthetic, purpose.

She continued: “Our native ancestors did not use pottery wheels to turn clay pots. Instead, they found or dug local clays from the ground.