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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 — 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 ...

Stephen Smith of McCarty Pottery in Merigold, Miss. will be the guest speaker at Luncheon With Books at the Union County Library Tuesday, Aug. 27, at noon. He will talk about the history of this ...

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 ...