The Name on the Door
In the spirit of Alchemist G. G. Wilkins
In the 1800s, Dr. George Granville Wilkins of Pittsfield, New Hampshire, was many things at once — a dentist, a saloon-keeper, the most prolific copper-coin counterstamper in American history, and a man twice convicted of selling spirits the law would rather he hadn't. He kept a caged bear out front and refused, on principle, to do anything the ordinary way.
We build in that spirit. Every still that leaves our hands is hand-raised copper, made to be useful for a lifetime and stubbornly American. We don't remember inventing this craft so much as remembering it.
— Alchemist G. G. Wilkins