made in vermont

Made In Vermont

But she’s proudest of her greatest masterpiece, one decades in the making: her family. Peggy Potter chuckles, “There could be something in the water.”

That’s because her husband and kids are all artists. Sparky Potter makes high-end, hand-carved wooden signs for businesses. Their son Lee is a poet and occasional stand-up comic, daughter Charlotte is a glass blower, and their other daughter is one of Vermont’s most closely watched musicians: rocker Grace Potter.

Grace Potter says, “I feel blessed to have a family of successful craftspeople. It’s not that easy.”

She and her band the Nocturnals tour the country. The singer/songwriter says it was her upbringing, when mom balanced bowl-painting with piano lessons and dad augmented lean sign sales giving art classes, that taught her “if at first you don’t succeed try, try again.”

Grace Potter says, “For me it was trying to get my music career going. And they knew, because they went through it themselves. It’s not an easy thing to do. But the payoff is so much more fun. You’re doing things for yourself, you know?”