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Potters who were magical long before Harry ; When the Watcombe Terracotta Pottery Company was established in 1869, it was much more than a factory making mass-produced wares for the tourist market it later became. Far from churning out cheap mottowares from plaster of Paris moulds, this business was led by Alexander Fisher and Holland Birbeck, who if not the best ceramic artists in the region, certainly ranked near the top.
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When the Watcombe Terracotta Pottery Company was established in
1869, it was much more than a factory making mass-produced wares for
the tourist market it later became. Far from churning out cheap
mottowares from plaster of Paris moulds, this business was led by
Alexander Fisher and Holland Birbeck, who if not the best ceramic
artists in the region, certainly ranked near the top.
Both had been enticed to South Devon by Charles Brock, Watcombe's
manager who had been able to encourage the turner/potter William
Higginbottom to leave the Terra Cotta Company Limited at Hele and
join them. It was ...
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Wilderness valuation. (preservation)
Magazine article from: Parks & Recreation
; Wilderness. There was a time when the beauty of...miles in any direction. Today not much wilderness remains. And wild, untamed places...the lower 48 states is protected as wilderness. The future of wilderness in this country...
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Wilderness protection campaign begins in West Virginia.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
; ...Johnson signed the national Wilderness Act into law, a new effort is...West Virginia to bring federal wilderness protection to tracts of remote...Among those seeking to add new wilderness areas to the Mon is Ed Zahniser...
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WILDERNESS STUDIES TIMETABLE FREE ROAMING HORSES AND BURROS:WILLIAM H. MEADOWS
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony
; 00-00-0000 THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY Testimony of William H. Meadows, President, The Wilderness Society on H.R. 1500, America's Wilderness Protection Act Before the House Resources Committee, Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests...
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Wilderness protection campaign begins
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette
; ...Johnson signed the national Wilderness Act into law, a new effort is...West Virginia to bring federal wilderness protection to tracts of remote...Among those seeking to add new wilderness areas to the Mon is Ed Zahniser...
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Wilderness, hope, and renewal: programs that include persons with disabilities.(Wilderness Education)(Wilderness Inquiry)
Magazine article from: JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance
; ...continue canoeing, skiing, visiting wilderness areas, and mountain biking. Outdoor/wilderness recreation was the main thing on his mind...him a number of brochures on outdoor and wilderness programs that includes people with disabilities...
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Wilderness epiphany: there is no doubt I am out of control and God is in control.
Magazine article from: Presbyterian Record
; ...It was a special spot embedded in the wilderness of the Rocky Mountains. It was a hot...word, "God!" It was the best of wilderness: silence, solitude, beauty, refuge...But that is precisely the nature of wilderness. Eugene Peterson points this out in...
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Wilderness takes a massive hit; The door closes on new BLM wilderness proposals
Newspaper article from: High Country News
; For years, wilderness groups have been hounding the Bureau of Land Management...continue to identify lands worthy of formal protection as wilderness. An initial round of wilderness inventories, completed in 1991, led to protection of...
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Wilderness Showdown Draws Near;House Panel to Weigh Montana Lands Bill
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...the last great battles over western wilderness is heading for an uncertain climax on...permanently protected as federally designated wilderness or opened up to uses such as mining...Legislation apportioning those lands between wilderness and non-wilderness has passed the...
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Wilderness and the human spirit. (Wilderness Discovery program)(includes related article)
Magazine article from: American Forests
; ...happening out there as programs like Wilderness Discovery help disadvantaged kids...fortunate enough to participate in the Wilderness Discovery program, which takes...youth on backpacking trips into wilderness areas, where they can learn about...
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Wilderness at 25 - a look to the future. (Wilderness Act)
Magazine article from: American Forests
; ...writer and lecturer. On the eve of the Wilderness Act's silver anniversary, questions...Twenty-five years ago this fall, the Wilderness Act became law. Seven years after Minnesota...Hubert Humphrey introduced the first wilderness bill, and some 66 revisions later...
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