Author: Jack Lail

  • A fire at Whynot

    Went to some of the potteries in Seagrove, N.C., today. A point of conversation at some is the competing pottery festivals the small town will have in November. Like retailers from Wal-Mart on down, the Christmas shopping season is critical for the artisans that operate the pottery shops roughly from Seagrove down N.C. 705 (the…

  • Busy in the late summer heat

    More hummingbird photos here.

  • Kneading public opinion

    Great post by Randy Neal on how the blogosphere’s growing importance in shaping customer opinions about companies and how companies are responding. This one involves a company close to home and a hallowed product in kitchen pantries, White Lily Flour, whose superiority to other flours long ago reached legendary proportions.  That would be great, except…