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29262
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This is a guide to North Carolina’s most notable potteries in the Piedmont, from Seagrove to Robins in lower Randolph and upper Moore Counties. Seven potteries are featured, each using traditional pottery techniques, local clays, and a variety of materials.
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Tar Heel (NoCar F 251 T37x), Vol. 8 Issue 9, Nov 1980, p24-25, por, map
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2631
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P. T. Beeman studied medicine with Dr. Edmund Fontaine of Wadesboro, completed his studies at Charleston Medical College, and practiced in Anson County. A radical medical thinker, his tombstone reads, \"I Fed Fever.\"
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 55 Issue 4, Sept 1987, p11,13, il
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16512
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Jugtown, as we know it today, was started in 1917 by Jacques Busbee, an artist from a famous old North Carolina family. In the early days, most potters had made jugs for distilleries. When prohibition was enacted, much of the North Carolina pottery making stopped. A few potters kept at their trade, making jars, churns, crocks, and pie dishes. In fact, you might credit the staring of Jugtown to a pie dish.
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35147
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Two stories told to the author by her mother in law. The first is “The Spell on Grandma Parker’s Cow,” and the second is “Grandmother Melton’s Rue Plant.”
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6563
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Parker discusses the life and artistic creations of Edgar Alexander McKillop. McKillop, an obscure mountain man with little formal education from the community of Balfour, is recognized as a great folk artist. His fame rests on thirty-three large walnut sculptures he created in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Tar Heel (NoCar F 251 T37x), Vol. 8 Issue 6, Aug 1980, p20-22, il