It’s Just Dirt!: The Historic Art Potteries of North Carolina’s Seagrove Region (America Through Time)

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Before retiring in 2013, Neolia Cole, the eighty-six year old daughter of potter Arthur Ray Cole, used to be first to arrive and last to leave the Cole’s Pottery shop. She possesses the indomitable spirit that has kept a Cole in pottery-making for more than two centuries. Once when asked how much pottery used to be produced by Cole’s Pottery in a year’s time, Neolia answered by saying as a substitute how much source of revenue a year’s sales represented. Even if Cole’s Pottery charged little or no for the wares made there, the yearly sum collected in a year used to be considerable. Wielding a sly grin, Neolia unashamedly conceded, “And it is just dirt!” In a way, pottery is just dirt. But collectors and lovers of the art form know that a lot more than dirt contributed to the incomparable successes of North Carolina’s early twentieth-century art potteries. It is a success story marked by adaptation, innovation, collaboration, and immensely hard work – a legacy that endures nowadays.

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