Great Southern Drives: Delta Blues Highway

Journey from Memphis to Merigold, Mississippi, for juke joints, hot tamales, and Morgan Freeman at the crossroads.

Blues Highway: Peter's Pottery in Mound Bayou
 Ralph Anderson

Mound Bayou

Peter’s Pottery
The three Woods brothers apprenticed under Mississippi master potter Lee McCarty before going out on their own. They use local clays and handmade glazes for their earth-tone rabbits, ducks, candlesticks, and crosses.

301 Fortune Avenue, Mound Bayou; (662) 741-2283. Prices range from $15 to $500. Visit peters-pottery.net.
 

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