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his is a page of a journal of the branch of the Camden-Rockland branch of the Maine Craftsmen Association dated 1948

My family has a long history of involvement with craft movements on both the British and the American sides. Above is a page of a journal of the branch of the Camden-Rockland branch of the Maine Craftsmen Association dated 1948. Dad arrived on Southport Island in 1952 and was the last person to keep this journal, thus we have it in our possession. After that, my father helped to form the Boothbay Art Foundation, which still exists today.

Dad didn't stay active in the art foundation for long because he encountered the same categorization issues that have persisted through the history of Andersen Design. The decision to create a handcrafted product affordable to the middle class was not understood in conventional thinking, Using production as an artform was difficult to assimilate even after Andy Warhol legitimized the concept in the bluechip art world, which it stayed with…