In 1980, Claire Wilson, a refined and soft-spoken Quaker - now in her 90’s and still living in Putney - met at the home of Paul and Dorothea Stockwell in West Brattleboro with a group of twelve or so folks interested in starting a spinnery. It would be a small business that would refine raw sheep’s wool into fine yarn. David Richie, now 80 with 35 years of his life invested in The Spinnery, was in that meeting. He recalls Claire saying “Why do we have sheep up here in the hills of Vermont but we have nothing to show for it?”
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