![<p>Robert Markle begins the process of making a pitcher on Thursday, March 8, in his studio in Columbia Falls. Markle has been making pottery for 40 years.</p>](https://hagadone.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/ARTICLE_303179979_H5_0_CDTABUSKAOIS_t1170.jpg?5cc718665ab672dba93d511ab4c682bb370e5f86)
<p>Robert Markle begins the process of making a pitcher on Thursday, March 8, in his studio in Columbia Falls. Markle has been making pottery for 40 years.</p>
March 17, 2012
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March 17, 2012 11:10 p.m.
The poetry of pottery
After 40 years, Markle still fired up about ceramics
Looking like a man at ease with his life, veteran potter Robert Markle sits on a big slab table in his Columbia Falls studio with his big black cat Griz curled up next to him.