13: Footloose
1. The weeping willow came down in a storm and crashed the clay sculpture guy apart.
2. We were visiting our son Josh’s Pottery Compound in Marshall NC. Aka: The Copus Clay Campus. The Digs. The Land.
3. It’s all an amazing art installaton. Aka: The Led Crane Pot Spot. The Carolina Clay Place.
4. There’s a Studio, a Gallery, hardscape, landscape, gardens and a few wood firing kilns.
5. Say Clay.
6. I call this Room with a View.
7. Josh calls it the library. A nice place to read by a woodstove, listen to music, snack or nap during kiln firings
8. We stayed at Josh’s Old Marshall Jail hotel in Marshall NC, just outside of Asheville.
9. We had a surprise line-up lunch with Floyd friends at Zadies, the restaurant at the jail.
10. And breakfast the next day at Zuma’s Coffeehouse, where we saw Josh’s face in this book about the Nanostead volunteers, people who did the clean-up of Marshall after the town was destroyed in the Helene flood.
11. This poem by Peter M. Ivey in his book titled After the Storm sort of says it all.
12. Josh and I had a monumental music listening session at his place: Neil Young and the Pretenders.
13. There was also an annual reunion party in the Dogwood meadow at Warren Wilson College that I hadn’t been to since I took Josh there for school.
______Thirteen Thursday
April 22nd, 2026 7:18 pm
The leg sticking out of the ground looks like a real leg. Glad you said it was a broken statue, or I might have wondered…
April 22nd, 2026 10:32 pm
I definatedly did a double take when I saw it.
April 23rd, 2026 9:07 am
Oh wow, that poor statue.
April 23rd, 2026 11:23 am
This is one post for the books!
I love the community and growth! It’s better than Spring! The picture and poem sent me …………
April 23rd, 2026 1:53 pm
Me too. How far all those so traumatized by Helene have come. It’s a story of neighbors and resilency. Such a sweet time with Josh while Joe was at a therapy convention in Asheville. We even went to the movies and saw The Hail Mary Project and loved it.