The book is visually stunning, with color photographs of pieces that jump off the page. Newly found historic photographs are wonderful additions. All told, this is a book that can beautifully stand on its own.

—Choice

Anyone with a serious mud-love must read this comprehensive chronicle of one of America’s most vital and venerable pottery traditions. Each page bursts with beauty and insight, describing a tradition that relentlessly rejuvenates itself and brims with potential at every turn of the wheel.

—Mark Hewitt, coauthor of The Potter’s Eye: Art and Tradition in North Carolina Pottery

This is a neat little volume, one that is needed, given the current trends in Georgia pottery. The north Georgia region has now become the center of folk pottery for the state; the Meaders and Hewell families have national reputations; the Hewells’ Turning and Burning Festival draws more and more people; and the new Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia will attract newcomers and educate them into the local traditions. And of course, no one better understands Southern folk pottery than John Burrison.

—Charles G. Zug III, author of Turners and Burners: The Folk Potters of North Carolina

From Mud to Jug is a handsome book sure to grace any coffee table and stand with pride on the bookshelf with other scholarly volumes of pottery and material culture. . . . I expect both potters and scholars will value this work as I do.

—Moriah Hart, Western Folklore

—Tom Mould, Journal of Folklore Research