Courtesy of the Lynn Museum Archives at the Phillips Library - Lynn Item September 1899. In 2014, after a year of traveling back and forth 50 miles to Gardner MA to learn bootmaking from Colorado bootmaker Jim Covington, my husband built an 11’ x 14’ shed in our backyard. This workspace allowed me more flexibility in working on boots at home (no more working in the basement, yay!) while still being accessible to our three children all the time. We live just north of Boston Ma

Interior of the Saboteuse Ten Footer Boot Shop in Wakefield MA in 2022 The absolute severing of our contemporary ties to the footwear history around us in Massachusetts is a wound I attempt to heal with my creative practice every day. It is tragic that I, a girl from Lynn, was so divorced from the history of our PLACE that I didn’t know what a Ten Footer was. I eventually had to travel to London to Cordwainers College, and then commute to Gardner in the middle of the state to