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This seismic event took place at her home, while Greenfield pottered about in the kitchen.

We inherited many of Beverly’s treasures once the place became ours, including richly hued bowls, mugs and serving pieces made by regional potters as well as signed oils and watercolors, drawings and numbered prints.

Next to the stacks of popcorn, across from her potter’s wheel, a child’s kite rests next to a pop-up tent.

Rita was particularly open to working with young potters as well as designers not versed in ceramics.

She’s been a potter, a poet and a felonious con artist.