The potter’s touch: A Crawford artisan is making his mark in clay
A potter with work inspired by the movie “Black Panther”? I was hooked. The press release from Mississippi University for Women about a graduate’s current ceramics exhibition made me curious about Stephen Phillips. Photographs of his dynamic work showed vessels of powerful design and high quality. And he was making all this in Crawford?
Rufus Ward: Lions and Tygers and Bears
First during deer season and now during turkey season radio talk shows and hunters are all discussing black panthers and if they are really found in Mississippi. Naturalists all agree that the black panther is not to be found in North America. However, Mississippi is within the traditional range of the Florida panther and within the last two years a deer feeder’s game camera recorded a night photo of a panther in central Louisiana.