Sixth Street Pottery
What the museum holds of their two websites, sixthstreetpottery.com and sixthstreetocarina.com, and on what terms.
A note from the museum
This page records what the museum holds of two websites that are no longer theirs, and what it may do with them. It is not by the makers, and nothing from the sites is republished here.
The museum’s account of their work, with a chronology, is at Sixth Street.
Chris Heuer and Amy Lake made pottery, and ocarinas, first in Madison, Wisconsin and then in Columbia, Missouri — as Sixth Street Pottery and later Sixth Street Ocarina.
What the sites held
Two addresses across two decades. sixthstreetpottery.com ran from Madison and then Columbia, captured every year from 2001 to 2009. sixthstreetocarina.com took over from 2010 to 2018. The museum’s copy of the second contains the first: the old Pottery pages were kept under a pottery/ path, which is how a business preserved its own history without meaning to.
What they sold: sweet potato ocarinas in soprano, alto, and tenor, individually tuned “so it will play an accurate musical scale in the key of C or F”; pendant whistles; chirping birds; and reproductions of historical instruments. Wheel thrown, hand built, slab worked and moulded, with non-toxic glazes. Their own summary was “a family business dedicated to offering you a unique line of high quality handmade ceramic ocarinas and whistles.”
A set of signed, dated FAQ answers, which are the best thing in the copy — Chris Heuer’s own, from September 2009, and four more from June 2008 signed by Paul Boomer, who appears nowhere else in anything the museum holds.
A short general history of the instrument, ocarina_history.htm, about the ocarina rather than about themselves.
What the museum holds
1058 files, 33.2 MB — and 431 further captures of those same pages, taken on other dates, 19.6 MB more. So this is a record of how the site changed, not a single day of it.
| 551 | pages |
| 105 | photographs and illustrations |
| 10 | PDF documents |
| 109 | small images that are page furniture rather than pictures — buttons, rules, spacers |
Saved from the Internet Archive in September 2026.
This mirror is known to be incomplete. A crawler bug hid the FAQ pages entirely until it was fixed, and 684 of the 1,075 files held have no row in the mirror’s own manifest, which means the museum cannot say which capture they came from. Until a second pass is made, an absence in this copy is not evidence of an absence on the site.
What the museum holds back, and why
Their contact details stay in the copy. The Columbia studio’s street address, a telephone number and an email address are in the mirror and are never published, on the same principle applied to Alan Albright’s 1995 curriculum vitae.
Part of the copy is not theirs. sixthstreetocarina.com lapsed and was refilled with search-engine filler about kitchen remodeling, posted by an author called secure_admin from December 2020 — beginning with one titled “Dummy Text”. Those pages are in the copy because they were at the address. They are not Sixth Street and must never be presented as such.
Rights, and what is published
Nothing from the sites is published. Chris Heuer and Amy Lake are living. Chris Heuer was written to in September 2026, and this page will say what he answers. Amy Lake has not been written to separately; if anything specifically hers is to be published, she is owed her own asking.
If this is your work, please write to theocarinamuseum@gmail.com.