About NH Bowl & Board

Paulie the Wooden Bowl Guy

Throughout his career as product developer and marketer Craft production leader - for medium & small companies, including his first start-up in Vail, Colorado and lastly in Bennington, Vermont Paul decried the gradual disappearance of America-made products and losing the pride of the artisan who creates them. His love of all things wood led him to the founding of NH Bowl & Board - one of the last bastion's of a disappearing "cottage" industry in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.

On a cold snowy morning, Paul was present at a foreclosure auction, amazed and delighted at his winning bid for general store once a thriving meeting spot in the center of Webster since 1899 -- Needing space for his growing business, Paul imagined bringing the building back to life.

Webster is just about eight miles in either direction to New Hampshire's two interstate highways, I-89 heading north by northwest to Lake Sunapee, New London, Hanover, and Woodstock, VT and I-93 heading north by northeast to Laconia, Lake Winnipesauke, Mount Washington and the Presidential range.

The Bowl outlet "company store" and offices are local to Hopkinton, Warner, Salisbury, Boscawen, Henniker and 12 miles from Concord New Hampshire.

Gayle Kimball

Attorney, fund raiser, consultant and hard scrabble New Hampshire gardener, Gayle moved from Bennington Vermont intent on being closer to her family and starting her own business. As life long crafts women she brings her artisanal and creative skills to New Hampshire Bowl and Board along with Turnaround business experience. Being a stones throw from her family The Kimball's of Contoocook is just near enough to stay close

Made In New Hampshire

Often mistaken at first glance for a bicycle rider, our back stamp is two cherries. The cherries represent our commitment to quality, and unique bowl design. Many bowls sold are birch or beech stained glazed or rubbed with a formula guaranteed to not be food safe. White doughy lifeless cooking store objects that become throwaways is not.

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About Webster

Webster is a small town of less than 2,000 people located just north of New Hampshire's Capitol City of Concord, not far east of Warner or west of Boscawen or Penacook - and south of the lakes and mountains that make New Hampshire a tourist destination year-round.

We love Webster because it still looks like the small country town it is, while being close to the hustle-bustle of southern New Hampshire, and an easy drive to Boston. Two of our close-by neighbors own sheep. Others grow & sell daylilies or pick your own raspberries. There are real dairy farms up the road. Our back field is still bordered by a lichen covered stone wall, marking old cow pastures. We are one of only a handful of businesses located in town, but "civilization" in all its form is close-by.

Named after Daniel Webster, the Town of Webster was founded 1860 when it separated from Boscawen. The first white settlers arrived in 1734 - among the native Penacooks, part of the Algonquin nation.

Named for Daniel Webster, Webster was actually born in Salisbury in 1782, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1801, began his law practice in Boscawen before going on to be a great American statesman, serving in the US Congress and Senate and as Secretary of State for two presidents.

When the Blackwater River was damned over back in the late 30s (it is the way they did things back then) after terrible floods and the Great Hurricane of '38, much of Webster was placed in a flood district, and old buildings were moved including the Stebbin's Store. The building was moved, eventually became Cowdrey General Store before becoming home to NH Bowl & Board.

We had not originally envisioned a retail store here, but we fell in love with the view of Mount Kearsage from our back deck. And all that sheep manure close-by sure has helped us get our new gardens underway.

There's a walking tour through the woods, behind us, including a marker at the site of the original Stebbin's Store.

Visit the Town of Webster's website here.