On the corner of Fairhaven’s Harris Avenue and 10th Street,
the display window of Good Earth Pottery
features rotating clayware and lettering by Lively Signs. In the over 50 years this
gallery has occupied Morgan Block, a circa 1890 brick building sporting a faded
advertisement, it has shaped and molded Fairhaven’s artistic scene.
“It’s been here since 1969,” says Ann Marie Cooper, Good Earth
Pottery’s current owner and a contributor since 2009. “It started out as a
hippie cooperative studio space, and then became a privatized gallery over time,
and it’s had different owners throughout the years.”
At the height of Fairhaven’s hippie era, Good Earth Pottery shared one of the only buildings that developers could not buy, with the original Bellingham Food Co-Op and Northwest Passage. Over the decades, various owners have expanded the store to feature…