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The traditional arts of basketry, pottery, textiles, weaving, and woodworking are demonstrated. 
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Burlon Craig Photos | Digital Traditions
Burlon Craig Photos | Digital Traditions

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Burlon Craig (1914-2002), Craig Pottery, Vale, Lincoln County, North Carolina. Craig is an example of the migration of the alkaline-glaze tradition that originated in the Edgefield District of South...
Walter Lee Cornelison Photos | Digital Traditions
Walter Lee Cornelison Photos | Digital Traditions

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Walter Lee Cornelison is a fifth-generation potter, turning wares in Bybee Pottery - Kentucky’s sole surviving traditional pottery. Cornelison turns on a wheel set up inside the old log pot shop while...
Howard Connor: Earliest Days | Digital Traditions

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Connor Pottery, Ashland, Benton County. Interview recorded in October 1981. Connor was born in Wickliffe, Kentucky, the son of journeyman potter Charles Tipton Connor. C. T. Connor established a...
Howard Connor Photos | Digital Traditions
Howard Connor Photos | Digital Traditions

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Connor was born in Wickliffe, Kentucky, the son of journeyman potter Charles Tipton Connor. C. T. Connor established a pottery in Ashland, Mississippi in 1940, less than twenty miles from the...
Collin Rhodes Photos | Digital Traditions
Collin Rhodes Photos | Digital Traditions

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Collin Rhodes (1811-1881) owned or co-owned a number of pottery factories including Pottersville, Phoenix Factory, and finally the Collin Rhodes Factory (ca. 1843) in Edgefield during the early to mid...