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From child apprentice to master craftsman

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From child apprentice to master craftsman
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WHEN Kevin Campbell was seven years old he sat among seasoned craftsmen in Frazer’s Content, Spanish Town, St Catherine, quietly observing as they shaped Dutch pots and coal stoves by hand. Now, in his early 50s, he makes more than 100 pots weekly — through his business — and is encouraging young Jamaicans to learn the fading art form in order to help preserve it.

He recalled that the making of Dutch pots, frying pans, soup pots, and coal stoves was once a thriving activity in the community but

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