THE WHEEL TURNS ROUND AND ROUND
August 21, 2014
WAITSBURG - To the average person, the spinning wheel is an obscure relic, relegated to glass-fronted museum cabinets and renditions of "Sleeping Beauty".
To Waitsburg native Ronda Bell, however, it's much more than that.
Bell has been spinning wool for nearly 18 years now. "Until you do it, you don't understand," she said as she described the "peaceful feeling" of pressing a spinning wheels treadle and listening to the mechanism make a gentle thunk noise as the wooden wheel rotates.
Her first encounter with the ageold art took place at Waitsburg's Fall Festival, where the Blue Mountain Spi...
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