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First, she took lessons in weaving log pounding from an elderly basketmaker in he Lakes Region and she moved on to a training and working arrangement with Wetherbee, who was living and working in Sanbornton at the time. Soon Sharon was working on her own, in a spacious workshop at her home, Birch Rise Farm, hidden in the scenic hills of Sanbornton, not far from Steele Hill Resort.

Brown ash wood, which is essential in the crafting of Shaker baskets, has been very hard to find in recent years because of drought in the 1980’s and again in 1995. But Sharon found a supply of the valuable wood in one of the North Country’s isolated, unincorporated townships, prophetically (for her) named “Success.”

She designed her own basket molds, the shapes around which the supple ash strands are woven, and then was lucky enough to find a skilled woodworker to make the forms. She has also learned to shape and bend basket rims and handles from the green wood of birch, cherry and ash, in the same manner as the early Shakers did.

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