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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.
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 ...
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 ...
A few years later, the couple returned to Lee's hometown of Merigold, where they established McCarty's Pottery, which has become some of the most sought-after Mississippi ceramics in its nearly 70 ...
"When we first opened our business, and I'd come home from Ole Miss, I taught J.D. Williams' daughter pottery," McCarty said in a lengthy interview with The Clarion-Ledger at his studio in late 2014.
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