Asheboro library to host talk on nexus of poetry and pottery in antebellum South

ASHEBORO -- Join Liberty-area potter and historian Brenda Hornsby Heindl for “Poetry and Pottery: Free and Enslaved Potters Working the South,” at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 4, at the Asheboro Public Library.

The talk is free and the public is invited.

Hornsby Heindl will discuss the intersection of pottery and poetry as both free and enslaved potters navigated their lives.

Hornsby Heindl operates Liberty Stoneware and also is a staff member at the Liberty library. Her pottery is influenced by studies of historic ceramics, kilns and archaeology.

The library is located at 201 Worth Street. For further information, call 336-318-6803.