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Meaders keeps turning family potters wheel
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Whelchel Meaders will be among the potters participating in the “Pottery Comes to Town” event 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday in the White County Courthouse parking lot in Cleveland. And, yes, he is a member of the well-known Meaders potters, some of whom have their pieces exhibited in the Smithsonian Institution. Though he is considered the patriarch of Saturday’s event at age 84, he doesn’t claim any fame as a potter and is modest about his work, which he says he does mainly just to have something to do beside cut grass in his spacious yard, which overlooks Skitts Mountain.