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Catawba Valley Pottery and Antiques Festival in Hickory
Catawba Valley Pottery and Antiques Festival fills a Hickory convention hall with traditional North Carolina pottery alongside Southern antiques, opening with a Friday night early-buying hour before the wider Saturday crowd arrives. Pottery demonstrations let visitors watch clay and wheel work in progress, and a lecture from Mary Farrell adds a reflective pause between rounds of browsing and buying.
Inside the convention hall in Hickory, rows of crocks, face jugs, pitchers, quilts, and old Southern antiques pull people forward table by table, until the whole room feels like a conversation between clay, wood, and memory.