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Lula folk potter fights to keep his family's land and legacy
David Meaders is fired up about the kiln and its history
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David Meaders finished work is a large face jug, vase and gourd head. It was crafted by the White County native earlier this year at his workshop in Lula. “It takes seven hours of work to get the kiln hot,” Meaders said. - photo by JOSHUA L. JONES
When asked how it feels to be the last son of a centurylong legacy, David Meaders responds with the humor and humility typical of his easy-going, deeply Southern personality. “It feels like being David,” Meaders said, as he crouches down to throw another log into the wood-fired kiln. Meaders was firing the kiln “possibly for the last time,” a potential endnote to a story that began more than a century ago.