Dear Friends,
When you read our last newsletter we were preparing to run our final weaving class in Marshfield. Now, as you read this newsletter, we’re in the middle of our first weaving class in Newbury. When we began the move we knew that the school’s geographic location would change. What we didn’t know was how much the school itself would change. Our new position, smack dab in the middle of Newbury village, surrounds us with community. With the windows and doors wide open we’re enveloped by the sounds of the school kids as they have recess out front on the common. Short walks to the village store keep us supplied with coffee and lunches that we share on the front porch. Curiosity brings visitors who poke their heads in and catch their first glimpse of the magic we know so well.
The move itself was an overwhelming display of the support that makes the school so much more than a place to weave. Coming together to disassemble, carry, and load up our collection of looms and tools, some of which are pushing 300 years old, was a tangible display of the love we share for the past and the future, for making, and for each other. Seeing all of that not only relocated, but expanded in Newbury has opened this new chapter in the school’s story with signs of good things to come. We simply can’t wait for you to experience it for yourself.
On behalf of our Board, the doors are open. Help yourself to the cookies on the table.
Justin Squizzero
Director
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