A pair of Bristol friends whose business was destroyed in a devastating fire last month are raising money to relaunch.

Maia Hirsch, 24, was always more fascinated with scientific systems and robotics than imported silks and lambskin leather.

How two central Montana companies led the creation of a domestically made shirt from hemp, a crop that had been illegal to grow in the U.S. for nearly a century.

That’s the Habitat for Humanity ReStore on Elysian Fields Avenue in New Orleans – a bargain hunter’s paradise disguised as an unassuming blue warehouse. In the land of jazz, jambalaya, and ...