The Alabama Experience; Miller's Pottery: Turning for Generations

ms bee he's been they're handmade pottery gray stones across nineteenth century alabama and the tradition continues today at villars pottery and brent miller family is carrying on alabama's longest running for the pottery tradition they have been turning tottering

since sixty five eric miller grew up in a rural area and learn the family tray now he is passing on the tradition of his son steve you know he had a farm every day during that really was a sense so does the ram the pyro morris watched they only teaches and walk along his songs just instinct is not really realizing that actually making happening on the stage stay up there trial america's

learning partners was really first thing that he had shown stone ms asher you're following so this really great failing and create something i just the mud and abraham miller a pennsylvania man came to alabama and eighteen sixty five and started the family business where here to abraham miller fairly self oh close to no bail at end of the civil war about day and a family the lower cost than which was likened pottery at will they have to carry meaning getting back to get ahead of any fellow with a girl and murder and health sciences locals and he learned how to like pottery william maury are you they're married and they set out on a way to a gram phrases of

baby no in a land that they're not picking scam i was in the new light at hunter harry potter know we're in pickens county for several years and many moved from lad to carry gear and set up a pottery in perry county in the us were or he'll stay and tilly had all his boy oh we all know got older and he took the pottery over made pottery and his sons will woman with the fall or shannon miller rio reveal my party alone and they fired was no water and no my father heard about that your day is or where indian came around in a row so he moved over here and sixty two his senate days for

is where we have to for our wood plank and so yellow live too like to do lorraine now the boy stayed know he learned how to make it in is maybe you will carry it out i don't store young is enough to know it's there i always found it interesting this is to marry a thing in the inner didn't get a family practice it would it have already a lot of cross racer the mining party more on that race no expense and so it'll make and pottery make money for a summer disco star just a few years ago a

practice in paris some discounted intimidation or as authorities say the august seven years before you really dramatically altered eric miller's nephew allen ham like eric started working in the family pottery as a child he fondly recalls the time when miller's pottery was bustling with activity i started ms rausch semi year though we used the metal shop and brought in we come in in the evening we'd like miles it's performed so paula deen and weather the next day they will know who would go to bat an inner howl a reactor were about like amal unlike pot boilers ball lumber along many in here canadian and we had no unity hero and vows if they go you know and we had to three more are helpless one would be in a clay in

radicalized of like it although he still comes by to turn a few pieces each month alan ham has taken another job in recent years leading the bulk of the pottery operation to eric and steve the raw materials for pottery have to be done from the earth but not just any claim will do mr guerrero years of history and terra cotta clinton cases stoneware on pottery play and only naked watertight which you do you on his show which of my shoes and become even leave the misener the millers day in fair play in perry county at the same location used by their family for generations then return to their been counting pottery shop to prepare the clay for turning we live at that is unless i think it comes out really

large loans and we had granted we're going so good in the pit of her to mix water with it anyway so on a pre soaking sort of dissolve the lansdowne i know phil miller and its water with it i'm going to move even texture consistency nail my father started you know electric motors journey but you know you use them you can turn them a mule you're right he's in his school fees too soon and the old days a process called

waging was used to remove rocks and other debris from the clay kemal the time when you take a liking you slice through his lawyer and two days ago i invented it rocks and sticks out a slap to climb back together could add picks and most excellent slather that slanted slabs of basic reliable <unk> to slice one about twenty to twenty five grand to get most of the big parts in big states that hosted ali you can be a mile away i was waiting today the millers have two machines which replaced the aging process then his

field conditioning and will monitor the machine that phrase isn't going to take having brought a steep incline and they will want to mention go lila takes though their solid team he's like a lot of play on college ball coy about what the tone wheel and change at any area to weaken to turn a picture of her in addition to producing play for their own use the millers sell clay to art supply companies and schools across alabama and mississippi whale thirty seven plaintiffs to college and make it is the best climate that they were tracked family that field they've broken

no learn how to my first but they don't get the fuel enjoyment of producing nuclear bomb next to the proper consistency and with debris and air removed the clay is ready for turning on the wheel modern wheels are powered by electric motors in the old days potter's wheels were turned by popping of foot pedals go quail a father's all markle a huge season in there when you have no commercial potter so that data's to go up north and say that so they were their work although our iowa chiquita a new continuously had to park pocket and to keep the wheel turning

so i was kicking labour and a long while in return and now over a period of years that would where they hear that that we're dying it didn't wear that he about that there were kicking way that whether he'll pay out that they were not taking we make ari we'll learning to make the role gradual process is learning to adjust lewin said sequence of hand motions in hand positions he's had to develop of fluency but in practice a lot of patience to get that leah consistent caricature of a shape as you want to be a teacher are shaping your mind before you start an arm in what you come out with it and gown be until he actually master the art squeeze page four

they can be used to re fall the walls are getting thinner and thinner as it's going to go you evil very small amount more in a bond sport that the wave itself as for the a mastercard you space it all out and shown very little of the bombers the studio cars nowadays usually tram a lot of the weight off after we finished making the complete say don't take the water out of the sponge for world is all the clay an animal person strike of cobalt sometimes for decoration send them along like a little pouring spell is going to be a while so you detect any given them daily is that the way they would wheel spinning as doug didn't actually having fish flying off you know in the local look or involved

in this you know you've got this new controller is go flying away just isn't it may and won the jury is going on is you know a baby but it was like you have to have a washing you get to say i was a huge growth while when you get to fail of a new work where the tin pie on new think tank i am mindy yeah it really start out one of thirty by an itchy pain make you hurt i learned from this watching this fellow used to have put us on a really good singer in a tan working as kenneth miller i learned out there like a turn and it's gonna wash the oreo in to sit and you know just watching in the cotton like a place like in his mind in this one on the edges whack out than in the plane woes doing their damn stuff

like inside the warm wheel and family or they got they seemed like the nurses our eyes and you know more news lately would <unk> you slept you ribald analysts here is tiger woods who you know we've got a lot to play with sliding into cooperation lot of pressure to make his play perfectly right signal fires than zulu all monkeys that's a lot of practice to learn almost to them both me and so he said he would welcome to your one and only in sad one locale so they have to set a club torture

into what we're going into the center and signed his full minute clay up to the height that you know it's and they knew that one singing you can shake have to get to the actual point you can push for your airplane left came out of the supreme court wants to go and like go out and you can shake most will allow a practice it's anti get to the shaking it and then we have all about who co cio which has met along the shia will take that tokyo will put it on the outside in and out the saloons saloons to go with a two year and then take all the excess water and iced buns outside of it might get even worse mood of a country taking orlando alabama

and those diets i'd like to have a couple more the mosquito slayer thirty men in harlem the skaters so they're by groves of the awards to ohio martin has is for the next year or so gordon west that one year old marc hughes of learned to like teenagers to little rock to go or data so i'm here i'm like oh this old martin played martin toward the stone where that will lie is far he says which have just been turned on a very soft they harden as they are some dried over a period of days well a few days and will step forward we are parallel sadly have to get a jekyll about every hour to tone for your journal even we have set and that takes so

so let's take storylines for days over drying upset and they know you can buy on inside the nato allies and the glazing is basically a decorative purpose but it does have on the functional purposes of are seized makes the pieces easier to clean and we live free place which is perfectly safe to eat our use in cooking but old willow diploma in the glaze and why fly the surfaces often discuss cinema killed because it's all been tempered glass milk all why the tops off to inspect when the blaze has dried the pieces are ready to be fired in the kill the millers are using a relatively new gas fired kiln

which they design and construct themselves now since i've got a smaller deal with temperature and its attempt to control that are trying to get back in the mike and how pitchers journey to play sabine pass a number as michael we went there as a few flower pots joe to find out the price of unfurnished turned that pleases opened the furnace trade i'm just a lucky kid in a furnace after you take the flu you could shut the know like the bird real love but yet to raise the temperature ever our overall are right about sixteen to twenty hour period to refute that to figure what we're looking for is thirty four twenty three hundred and fifty degree and

i wish she had it out of him than two three days in cooling down to for an openness toward a silly what the stove open the door and every time blow the case is not open the door into her find you so it's a slow waiting game and so anxious stand up to open the no exchanges great grandfather was like a palette and they're uniting removal of the aisle who likened pottery around though the community cause of people in the community with farmers mostly and

they had to have their own well known figures turned to my plight stayed out of being plastic the way and now power woes or a community a person that solo stuff to the other farmers in every us for lerach needed a hangover was no place to know no other lions and there was a community a part of the fall or so clyde talks kentucky and might mean you give figure has made mostly for our bosses leaders in the floor of the study i was alert to my parts and i'll get into commercial tai chi court cases in

america and he says it may end of their heel pain the history spans more family space you more artistic potter and gets a lulu for aging and the labor union involved in houston's more turmoil each piece and decorate a little more than a well man it has been it's b

it's been in the past the full court you know i think that's a big part of it is my whole tradition but on a felucca keep in that area on a branch off on mine and decorative where he knows long i think you notice this week more than big money is in the assignment michael live and think about that mark great grandfather abraham miller started and detained sixty fattening his son were landing in that our fear of baghdad turned those that their mea culpa to show to answer video played

the client might pottery and that his son which was when they are what make it shows or an unnamed around the pottery learn how i'll make pottery and i was lamb last fall in their few pages shows alliance to learn how to make pottery and no matter what as a lawyer my aria which is the leakage of lamb lamb but it's so i don't know the reason we all steel blue pottery world and they always say is it's in you know and if you ever just hard to quit so he's a swimmer families just isn't the birth of elysium be a big enough business that can be at full time i might have to just do the hobby that i hopefully i'm just being honest now now i'm a fifth generation powers applied to carry on shouting amount of

children one day and just didn't carry on for another hundred years it's been for a videotape of this program to send a check or money order for twenty one

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