Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The McCarty's Pottery showroom in Merigold closes each year from Christmas Day through the end of January. Local fans and ...

Lee McCarty was teaching chemistry at the University of Mississippi in the 1950s when his wife, Pup, decided to take a pottery class. “She was the only female in the class. It was filled with football ...

Book signing for "McCartys of Merigold, Mississippi: The Pottery" 3-7 p.m. Wednesday at Inside Out at the Renaissance shopping center in Ridgeland More info/reserve a book: Call Inside Out at ...

In this Jan. 25, 2015 photo, Lee McCarty sits in his studio in Merigold, Miss., and recalls how he opened McCarty Pottery, 60 years ago while teaching at the University of Mississippi. McCarty, an ...

MERIGOLD — Two and one-half hours from Jackson across the Delta, we arrive in this hamlet tucked into the shade of large trees spared in the clearing of the vast farming land. We have come to visit ...

Part of the fun of visiting thrift stores is that you never know what you might find. Sure, there are some items that seem questionable, but then there are others that are quirky, fun, or possibly ...

JACKSON — Lee McCarty, an award-winning artisan who worked with his wife for decades to turn Mississippi clay into pottery that became collector’s pieces, died Monday at his home in the Delta town of ...

Annette Anderson, of New Orleans, loved the arts, having been educated at Newcomb College, the first degree-granting coordinate college for women in the United States, around the turn of the 20th ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Lee McCarty, an award-winning artisan who worked with his wife for decades to turn Mississippi clay into pottery that became collector’s pieces, died Monday at his home in the ...