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Article: Lessons learned: how did running an organic-pizza joint in Fairhaven in the late '60s prepare John Blethen to be successful with his cabinetmaking business 30 years later? Read on.
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- Bellingham Business Journal
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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To look back at the lessons John Blethen learned as a first-time business owner is to look back a few decades, to the late 1960s. At that time, Blethen--a longtime community activist and business owner in Bellingham--was returning to the Pacific Northwest after graduating from Antioch College in Ohio with a teaching degree and a year of professional experience working at an inner-city school on the South Side of Chicago.
"The setting was Bellingham, 1969, and I was quite counter-culture," he said. "I'd graduated the year that Coretta (Scott) King was given a degree, and Antioch was pretty active in the civil rights movement."
He arrived in town in a ...