History repeats for former re-enactor turned part-time potter

On his short list of favorite jobs, David Day aced it right out of college. At Dallas Heritage Village (then known as Old City Park), he demonstrated the skills of a pioneer potter – shaping clay at a kick wheel and firing pots in an underground kiln he had to climb down into to load.

That '90s interlude, awash in simplicity, gave way to a patchwork of more adult roles: husband, father, studio artist for hire, salesman of real estate.

But the mystique of 19th-century folk art never dimmed for Day, 38, who last summer reintroduced a collection of hand-thrown pottery, sold through Redenta's Garden in Dallas and Arlington.

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