Brown's Pottery in Transition?

Answer Man John Boyle answered a reader's question about Brown's Pottery in today's Asheville Citizen-Times. Here's the beginning of the piece:

Question: What is going on with Brown’s Pottery in Arden? Are they closing?

My answer: You mean after just 319 years in business?

Real answer: Brown’s Pottery has had family members producing pottery here and in Georgia since 1700, which is why they tout themselves as the “oldest continuing producers of Ugly Face Jugs and Southern Folk pottery in America.” More about those ugly face jugs in a minute.

Brown’s Pottery has been in Arden since the 1920s, first at a nearby location where the Wells Fargo bank is now, and then at 2398 Hendersonville Road since 1940.

“We’ve been on this ground right here for five generations,” Charlie Brown said.

And now that’s coming to an end — in this location.

“We will be out of here March 31,” Brown said. “We are not closing, though. We are relocating. We’re saying to people we would like everybody to come by and see us.”

– John Boyle, writing for the Asheville Citizen-Times

Read the whole piece here: https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2019/03/21/answer-man-browns-pottery-arden-transition/3213663002/