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Peter Anderson Biography
(1901 - 1984)

Peter Anderson was the master potter at Shearwater Pottery from its inception in 1928 until shortly before his death in 1984. Peter’s family remembers him as the heart and soul of the pottery along with their mother, Pat.

Peter Anderson is memorialized by the Peter Anderson Arts and Crafts Festival which is held on the first weekend of November each year in Ocean Springs, MS. The event attracted 350 vendors in 2009 and over 100,000 guests.

Peter was born to George Walter and Annette McConnell Anderson in New Orleans, LA in 1901, where George was an import/export merchant.

Peter had two younger brothers, Walter Inglis and James McConnell (Mac). When Peter was 12 and Walter 10, their parents sent them to New York for three years to attend Manlius Military Academy for Boys. Upon their return to New Orleans they were enrolled in the Isadore Newman Vocational School where they studied various crafts including pottery and woodworking.

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