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Author: Nancy Sweezy
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780807844816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRaised in Clay is a remarkable portrait of pottery making in the one of the oldest and richest craft traditions in America. Focusing on more than thirty potters in North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Mississippi, and Kentucky, Nancy Sweezy tells how
Author: Nancy Sweezy
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRaised in Clay: The Southern Pottery Tradition
Author: Nancy Sweezy
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Published: 2000*
Total Pages: 23
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles G. Zug
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 496
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis richly illustrated portrait of North Carolina's pottery traditions tells the story of the generations of 'tuners and burners' whose creation are much admired for their strength and beauty. The first comprehensive ceramic history for the state, this book examines the largely vanished world of folk potters and the continuing achievements of their descendants.
Author: Paul Andrew Wandless
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9781579906351
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Author: George James Cox
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christopher Benfey
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-02-26
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0143122851
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Beautiful, haunted, evocative and so open to where memory takes you. I kept thinking that this is the book that I have waited for: where objects, and poetry intertwine. Just wonderful and completely sui generis." (Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes) An unforgettable voyage across the reaches of America and the depths of memory, this generational memoir of one incredible family reveals America’s unique craft tradition. In Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay, renowned critic Christopher Benfey shares stories—of his mother’s upbringing in rural North Carolina among centuries-old folk potteries; of his father’s escape from Nazi Europe; of his great-aunt and -uncle Josef and Anni Albers, famed Bauhaus artists exiled at Black Mountain College—unearthing an ancestry, and an aesthetic, that is quintessentially American. With the grace of a novelist and the eye of a historian, Benfey threads these stories together into a radiant and mesmerizing harmony.
Author: Silas House
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 2001-04-01
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1616202971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn a bone-chilling New Year's Day, when all the mountain roads are slick with ice, Clay's mother, Anneth, insists on leaving her husband. She packs her things, and with three-year-old Clay in tow, they inch their way toward her hometown along the treacherous mountain roads. That journey ends in the death of Clay's mother. It's a day that comes to haunt her only son, who's left without a family and a history. This is the story of how Clay Sizemore, a coal miner in love with his town but unsure of his place within it, finds a family to call his own. And it's the story of the people who become part of the life he shapes: Aunt Easter, always filled with a sense of foreboding and bound to her faith above all; Uncle Paul, quietly producing quilt after quilt; Dreama, beautiful and flighty; Evangeline, the untameable daughter of a famous gospel singer; and Alma, the fiddler whose song wends its way into Clay's heart. Together, they all help Clay to fashion a quilt of a life from what treasured pieces are around him. Authentic and moving, Clay's Quilt is both the story of a young man's journey and of Appalachian people struggling to hold on to their heritage.
Author: Elizabeth Evans
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2015-08-11
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0062434403
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrunk, and driving a van down a Florida highway, Carter Clay, a Vietnam vet at loose ends, irrevocably shatters the lives of the Altiz family, killing Joe and seriously injuring his wife, Katherine, and their daughter, Jersey, in a hit-and-run accident. Horrified, Clay seeks redemption, while still concealing his culpability, by becoming the questionable caretaker of the two survivors' damaged lives--eventually imposing upon them the baggage of his past and his haphazard faith in God. Suspenseful, psychologically complex, and inhabited by characters that will haunt your memory long after you have turned the last page, Carter Clay is a finely wrought tale of the frailty of identity and the possibility of redemption.
Author: Suzanne Staubach
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2013-09-03
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1611685044
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than a third of the houses in the world are made of clay. Clay vessels were instrumental in the invention of cooking, wine and beer making, and international trade. Our toilets are made of clay. The first spark plugs were thrown on the potter’s wheel. Clay has played a vital role in the health and beauty fields. Indeed, this humble material was key to many advances in civilization, including the development of agriculture and the invention of baking, architecture, religion, and even the space program. In Clay, Suzanne Staubach takes a lively look at the startling history of the mud beneath our feet. Told with verve and erudition, this story will ensure you won’t see the world around you in quite the same way after reading the book.
