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Flashback Clay Times: 20 Years (continued from page 15) “I think it [the newsletter] is a great thing that you’re doing,” he said. Wow, I thought, this is great — an accomplished, professional, lifelong potter believes in the newsletter! During the ensuing months, I received enough paid subscription orders to take the leap from “newsletter publisher” to “magazine publisher.” In the fall of 1995, at the first Virginia Clay Conference in Front Royal, Virginia, I rented a commercial exhibitor’s booth and announced that the newsletter would soon become a fullcolor magazine. Rick Berman, Ron Meyers, and Michael Sim