Just a quick note about a book of interest to pass along.  I am reading "Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter Dave".  I know you are interested in pottery, but this is much more than a ceramics book,  history pre & post civil war, value of education, poetry, politics and general history of our area of the Carolinas.  Writen by Leonard Todd whose family back in 1800s owned slave potter Dav.