John A. Burrison

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A folklorist and professor of English at Georgia State University in Atlanta, John A. Burrison has helped shape an entire academic field of specialty, that of folk pottery. He holds a couple of face "jugs."

Courtesy of John Burrison. Photograph by Carolyn Richardson

John A. Burrison

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