About Susan

I'm Susan Harbourt. I spent my first career as an engineer. Now I cut stone and make jewelry at the Portage River Lighthouse on Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, the lighthouse I'm restoring.

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Most of my stones come off the Lake Superior beach. The Peconic pieces start with beach stones from the North Fork and South Fork of Long Island. I shape and polish each one by hand and set it in silver or copper.

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I also teach. Classes at the lighthouse and the Lighthouse Charm Club, one handmade charm a month, are both taking names now.