Biography of chester heweller

No matter the vintage, a pot created by Northeast Georgia’s Hewell family holds some history. Seven generations of Hewells have passed down the craft from the pottery&#;s humble beginnings in the midth century all the way to today.

In John Burrison’s &#;Brothers in Clay: The Story of Georgia Folk Pottery,&#; the late Harold “Bull” Hewell () spoke about the expectations of his father, Maryland &#;Bud&#; Hewell (): &#;I think he had it in mind he wanted all his boys to be potters.

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. . I have three brothers, and we’ve all kept our hands in the business. We must have been born with clay in our veins.”

That red Georgia creek-bed clay has been pumping through Hewell veins and hands since , when Nathaniel Hewell (), a Barrow County farmer, turned to pottery-making as a sideline, producing tableware and utilitarian pieces such as butter churns, jars, and jugs during the Civil War.

Through the Depression, northeast Georgians depended on Hewell’s Pottery and other fam