The Couple That Launched a Thousand Artists

San Francisco Magazine Lindsey J. Smith Shaughn and John From a pottery school to a B&B to a bakery, Marcia and Bruce McDougal have forged a 55-year partnership in creation. For some two decades starting in the late 1960s, artists, wannabe artists, and all manner of free spirits descended on a ranch called Big Creek outside Davenport, the speck of a town just north of Santa Cruz. There they lived off the land and, day after day, threw clay pots, mugs, and bowls on a pottery wheel as part of a mu...