St. Jude treatment of sickle cell disease hits close to home for this Mississippi pottery shop - St. Jude Website
MOUND BAYOU, Mississippi — Peter’s Pottery is lined with plates and vessels in colors that suggest the land where they were made: the speckled white of cottonwood seed, lichen green, silty brown, and “Bayou Blue,†their signature color, the dusky hue of last light on summer nights. Colors more earthy than gem-toned, though the town of Mound Bayou, where Peter’s Pottery was born, was once called the Jewel of the Delta. Read more.