The McCarty's Pottery showroom in Merigold closes each year from Christmas Day through the end of January. Local fans and collectors held their breath Tuesday wondering and hoping the showroom would ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND – Lee McCarty went to services at Calvary Episcopal Church last Sunday. Somebody asked him how he was doing. “I am absolutely perfect,” he responded. He participated in Sunday services like ...

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 ...