New classroom studios honor SHI’s educational mission and artistic legacy Illustrations by Kate Brewer As part of its 100th anniversary celebration, Sandwich Home Industries is undertaking a major renovation of the lower level of its historic Main Street building, transforming a longtime classroom area into an updated educational space for the community. The renovated lower level will feature dedicated ceramics and printmaking studios, improved work areas, expanded classroom

A Community Gathering to Celebrate the Creative Process Wood-firing is a traditional way of firing pottery using wood as the sole fuel source. Suzanne Weil's kiln is the only wood-firing kiln in the area and an amazing community resource. At this event, local potters explained the process, including Suzanne, Franz Nicolay, Jack Mauch, and others. Part of the year-long celebration for the Sandwich Home Industries centennial, community members absorbed the warmth of the kiln a

A Talk by Rich Benton and Josh Jackson, April 2026 Members of our community were treated to an entertaining and engaging presentation on both the restoration of the Oakwood Farm Barn and Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. In 2025, Rich Benton, a longtime Sandwich resident and building contractor specializing in timber framing, who’d been hired to move and restore the 200 year old Oakwood Farm Barn in Moultonborough, collaborated with Josh Jackson to construct and install the timb

A Talk by Martha Nichols on the Occasion of the Centennial, March 2026 Sandwich Home Industries, founded in 1926 in Sandwich, New Hampshire, has been a cornerstone of the town’s creative and economic life for a century. What began as a modest rug exhibition organized by a few dedicated women grew into a cooperative craft enterprise that helped shape the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen — the first state-supported craft organization in the United States. From its origins in a