Located in the southern Appalachian mountain region, Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina, has made a specialty of celebrating the handwork of yesterday and today. In October it reunited the master ceramists Don Reitz and John Jessiman , old friends from the 1960s, for a workshop-Reitz's first since his heart surgery two years ago. The event launched the university's brand new Randall and Susan Parrott Ward Endowment Fund for Ceramics.
