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Monday, July 17, 2017
Learn about antiques and collectibles with Dr. Georgia Caraway pieces I have ever seen. In a recent Southern Folk Pottery auction, a much smaller storage jar with a good-sized chunk in the rim sold for $225. I estimate your piece to be in the $800-$1000 range. I used to own a marked Cranston churn with a gorgeous cobalt “dandelion” motif and the name of the pottery and a “3” insized. It sold recently for $750. So Texas pottery is holding its value especially if it is marked with the pottery name and an interesting design. There are some Texas pottery pieces in the Mercantile. Dr. Georgia Caraway, and her friends, opened the Howe Mercantile at 107 East Haning in April 2015. Store hours are Wednesday through Saturday noon until 8 p.m. Come see the two new vendors in the shop, Smitten and Dr. Georgia Caraway Kay’s Kreations. In the next two weeks Yvette will be adding aromatherapy and essential oils to Q. What is the history of this the Mercantile. And we are piece of pottery? negotiating with a maker of pure A You have a splendid example goat soap to be offered in the shop for sale. Georgia, former of Texas pottery made by the Roark Pottery that was located on director of the Denton County Museums for 14 years, has written the eastern side of the Little Elm five Denton history books and Reservoir near Crossroads and Denton. James. M. Roark and his hopes her next book will be the history of Howe. If anyone has partner, J. A. Smith, bought the property on 1871 and began their photos that she can copy, please bring them to Howe Mercantile. pottery shortly thereafter. Roark probably learned his pottery skills from John Cranston, another Downtown Howe has two gift and Denton County Potter. In 1884, antique shops—Howe Mercantile Roark sold out to the Griffith brothers whose operation appears and Stark Farms Gifts. SHOP to have ended around 1900. Your LOCAL. We can show you Howe! six-gallon churn is one of the finest
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Dustin Furbush 1973-2017
It's been twenty years or more, and we all just gathered and opened the old door. If only you'd have come to see your old mates, Our arrogance believes we could revise the fate. But we will always love you as our Furr, perhaps the most intellectual our town will endure. You were kind and gentle as a summer night's breeze, never in a day is this what a friend foresees. Your heart is what will tell your tale, and our memory of you will never fail. Maybe we failed in our upkeep of the furnace, Lord be with you and Lord be with us.
