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Podcast: Download (26.3MB) In this episode, we start to explore pottery produced by artisans from the Catawba Nation in South Carolina. This is part one of a three part series on this age old art. In part one of our exploration of this earthenware tradition. I talk with Bill Harris, a Catawba potter who learned [...]
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I am teaching a workshop this weekend on the Identification, Care and Handling of Historic Photographs. I am not an expert in this area, but I am a firm believer that the only way to really learn something is to teach it. So as I was pulling together information of the workshop I started thinking [...]
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Podcast: Download (28.6MB)
Podcast: Download (28.6MB) What would you do if you found out that your ancestors were slaveholders who owned one of the most talented folk potters in South Carolina? When Leonard Todd found himself in this situation, he committed himself to a six-year journey of discovery about the Life and work of an enslaved artisan named [...]
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A couple of months ago, I did an interview with Jennifer Core of the Tennessee Sampler Survey. She just emailed me to let me know that the Survey as part of their exhibition at James K. Polk Home, Middle Tennessee Samplers: “This My Name Shall Ever Have” they have announced a symposium. A list of [...]
