Holiday Kiln Opening 2022 Pottery & Showroom Open dates & times: Friday, November 25 10-5pm Saturday, November 26 10-5pm Sunday, November 27 noon-5pm & Saturday, December 3 10-5pm Sunday, December 4 noon-5pm & Saturday, December 10 10-5pm Sunday, December 11 noon-5pm Mark Hewitt Pottery Kiln Opening Can’t wait? Need a shopping appointment now? Not to worry, we are happy to set up an appointment! Please call 919-542-2371 and listen for Carol’s cell number in the voice message, or email us at sales@hewittpottery.com. COVID guidelines: All staff are fully vaccinated and our large barn/showroom with open doorways is more like being outside than in, so masks at your discretion.

If you're looking for that perfect leather gift to give to someone (or yourself), you can find me at the following events: December 3, 4, 10 & 11, Chatham Artists Guild Studio Tour (visit me in my work environment...but it will be cleaned up!!) 10-5 on Saturdays, noon-5 on Sundays.

Holiday Kiln Opening 2022 Pottery & Showroom Open dates & times: Friday, November 25 10-5pm Saturday, November 26 10-5pm Sunday, November 27 noon-5pm & Saturday, December 3 10-5pm Sunday, December 4 noon-5pm & Saturday, December 10 10-5pm Sunday, December 11 noon-5pm Mark Hewitt Pottery Kiln Opening Can’t wait? Need a shopping appointment now? Not to worry, we are happy to set up an appointment! Please call 919-542-2371 and listen for Carol’s cell number in the voice message, or email us at sales@hewittpottery.com. COVID guidelines: All staff are fully vaccinated and our large barn/showroom with open doorways is more like being outside than in, so masks at your discretion.

Jazz nights are continuing on Wednesdays so don't miss out on the chance to hear some great holiday jazz this month, sprinkled in alongside your classic favorites. Here are our performers for December: 12/14- Lauren Meehan Band 12/21- Dave Quick 12/28- Tony Galiano So make a reservation and join us for dinner tonight! Lounge menu served in the dining room, and the lounge, and our full dinner menu as well.

Come downtown to see Pittsboro lit by luminaria! Stores will be open to help you check off your shopping list. Thanks to all our sponsors! Full Schedule

Save the date for our second annual holiday dinner. With a coursed meal sure to impress any palate, plenty of holiday cheer and drinks to go around, you won’t want to miss out on our most festive evening of the year. Live piano music will bring some of the season’s classics as you enjoy an extraordinary dining experience. Check back soon for the menu. Reservations are open by telephone only.

Jazz nights are continuing on Wednesdays so don't miss out on the chance to hear some great holiday jazz this month, sprinkled in alongside your classic favorites. Here are our performers for December: 12/21- Dave Quick 12/28- Tony Galiano So make a reservation and join us for dinner tonight! Lounge menu served in the dining room, and the lounge, and our full dinner menu as well.

Jazz nights are continuing on Wednesdays so don't miss out on the chance to hear some great holiday jazz this month, sprinkled in alongside your classic favorites. Here are our performers for December: 12/28- Tony Galiano So make a reservation and join us for dinner tonight! Lounge menu served in the dining room, and the lounge, and our full dinner menu as well.

A deeply personal memoir that unearths a family history of racism, slaveholding, and trauma as well as love and sparks of delight. Marcia Herman’s family moved to Birmingham in 1946, when she was five years old, and settled in the steel-making city dense with smog and a rigid apartheid system. Marcia, a shy only child, struggled to fit in and understand this world, shadowed as it was by her mother’s proud antebellum heritage. In 1966, weary of Alabama’s toxic culture, Marcia and her young family left Birmingham and built a life in North Carolina. Later in life, Herman-Giddens resumed a search to find out what she did not know about her family history. Unloose My Heart interweaves the story of her youth and coming of age in Birmingham during the Civil Rights Movement together with this quest to understand exactly who and what her maternal ancestors were and her obligations as a white woman within a broader sense of American family. More than a memoir set against the backdrop of Jim Crow and the civil rights struggle, this is the work of a woman of conscience writing in the twenty-first century. Haunted by the past, Unloose My Heart is a journey of exploration and discovery, full of angst, sorrow, and yearning. Unearthing her forebears’ centuries-long embrace of plantation slavery, Herman-Giddens dug deeply to parse the arrogance and cruelty necessary to be a slaveholder and the trauma and fear that ripple out in its wake. All this forced her to scrutinize the impact of this legacy in her life, as well as her debt to the enslaved people who suffered and were exploited at her ancestors’ hands. But she also discovers lost connections, new cousins and friends, unexpected joys, and, eventually, a measure of peace in the process. With heartbreak, moments […]

Orange Tulips is a story, told in narrative lyric poetry, of a young woman’s protracted struggle with mental illness and her eventual hard-won recovery. Victoria Reynolds writes, “These are poems that relish ‘the ecstatic lift/of strength and artifice,’ that poetry-making contributes to the difficult work of becoming who we are. Joan Barasovska lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She will host a poetry series at McIntyre’s Books in 2023 and serves on the Board of the North Carolina Poetry Society. For thirty-five years, Joan has been an academic therapist in private practice. Her poems appeared in Kakalak, San Pedro River Review, Flying South, Crossing the Rift, Red Fez, Speckled Trout Review, Main Street Rag, among other journals and anthologies. In 2020 Joan was nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize. Joan is the author of Birthing Age (Finishing Line Press, 2018), Carrying Clare (Main Street Rag, 2022), and Orange Tulips (Redhawk Publications, 2022). Chris Abbate's poems have appeared in numerous journals including Connecticut River Review, Cider Press Review, and Comstock Review. He is a two-time nominee for a Pushcart Prize, has been nominated for a Best of the Net award, and has received awards in the Nazim Hikmet and North Carolina Poetry Society poetry contests. His poetry has also been featured on Verse Daily. His first book, Talk About God, was published by Main Street Rag in 2017. His full-length collection, Words for Flying, was published by FutureCycle Press in 2022. Visit him at chrisabbate.com Sherry Siddall wrote poetry as a child, and studied creative writing at Oberlin College as an undergrad. She continued to write sporadically while raising a family and working. In the last ten years she has been able to re-engage with poetry with intention and the support of a wide and generous community […]

Get assistance with developing a business plan and gaining insight into financing, legal considerations, marketing, bookkeeping, and taxes for your business. Apply to join the Chatham SPARK program by Jan. 31st. Central Carolina Community College’s Siler City Center, 400 Progress Boulevard, Siler City, and will run from 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm CLASS ONE: Starting a Business/Building a Plan Monday, March 13, 2023, 6 - 9pm This session offers an introduction to the program, the basics of starting a business, and how to put together your business plan. Discussions will include developing an entrepreneurial mindset and evaluating the feasibility of your business idea. You'll also discover the resources available to help you start and successfully operate your business. This seminar will teach you the important components of a business plan and help you lay the foundation for a winning plan. Discover how a business plan is used by potential lenders, the dos and don'ts of writing a plan, and the steps for making the process easy. CLASS TWO: Legal Considerations of Starting a Business Monday, March 20, 2023, 6 - 9pm This session will address the potential legal issues facing small business owners. Discussion will include business structure, licensing, zoning, protecting your business assets, employer responsibilities and business insurance. (Business plan review) CLASS THREE: Business Taxes Monday, March 27, 2023, 6 - 9pm Gain a solid understanding of taxes required for small business owners and develop the best tax strategy for your business. Become familiar with the latest tax forms and procedures for both state and federal taxes. Discover how everyday business decisions can have tax implications that can affect your bottom line. This seminar is important for both new and experienced business owners. (Business plan review) CLASS FOUR: How to Find Your Customers (Market Research) Monday, April 5, 2023, […]

Join us for a grand reopening after the holidays! Stop on by to check out all the new inventory while you enjoy snacks and beverages. 1/6/23, 4-7pm

Join us for the 10th Annual Crook's Corner Award Winner Discussion hosted online by Chapel Hill Public Library, Flyleaf Books, and the Crooks' Corner Book Prize Foundation. We'll chat with the winner (to be announced on January 9!) and this year's judge, Ben Fountain (Beautiful Country Burn Again and Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk).

Join us at The Sycamore at Chatham Mills! 9 am, guests welcome. The speaker will be Sharon Culpepper, from the County Division of Solid Waste and Recycling.

Set in the punk-rock scene of the early 2000s and vibrating with the intense ache of bad choices and deep longing, a needle-sharp portrait of a young woman and how far she’ll go to find acceptance   Kat is dying to be accepted by the North Carolina punks; she is totally desperate to seem cool. At a punk show, she ends up backstage with a rock star and gets noticed by a photojournalist. And then—a dream come true for Kat—her reputation as a groupie icon skyrockets. But to maintain this notoriety, Kat makes a series of devastating choices, and soon enough, she becomes unrecognizable to herself and others. Tea Hacic-Vlahovic’s A Cigarette Lit Backwards is a sometimes funny, often brutally honest novel about ambition and self-discovery and how a world of glamour and cool exerts its bold and breathless pull. In prose that seduces, glitters, and exhilarates, Tea Hacic-Vlahovic has written a novel that is both a wild party and a somber reckoning, consolidating her status as a thrilling and essential new voice for our time. Tea Hacic-Vlahovic is a Croatian-American writer based in Los Angeles. She has contributed to numerous publications, including i-D, Dazed, Oyster, Flaunt, and Autre magazines and has also served as a columnist for Vice and Wired Italy, a contributing editor for Wonderland magazine, and the director of Bullett TV. In spring 2020 her first novel, Life of the Party, was released in the United States by Clash Books to critical acclaim. It was an instant bestseller in Italy and is soon to be a film.

Come out Sunday night and join Quiltmaker Cafe and Pittsboro United Methodist Church for the Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Celebration. Can't wait to see you all!

Get assistance with developing a business plan and gaining insight into financing, legal considerations, marketing, bookkeeping, and taxes for your business. Apply to join the Chatham SPARK program by Jan. 31st. Central Carolina Community College’s Siler City Center, 400 Progress Boulevard, Siler City, and will run from 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm CLASS ONE: Starting a Business/Building a Plan Monday, March 13, 2023, 6 - 9pm This session offers an introduction to the program, the basics of starting a business, and how to put together your business plan. Discussions will include developing an entrepreneurial mindset and evaluating the feasibility of your business idea. You'll also discover the resources available to help you start and successfully operate your business. This seminar will teach you the important components of a business plan and help you lay the foundation for a winning plan. Discover how a business plan is used by potential lenders, the dos and don'ts of writing a plan, and the steps for making the process easy. CLASS TWO: Legal Considerations of Starting a Business Monday, March 20, 2023, 6 - 9pm This session will address the potential legal issues facing small business owners. Discussion will include business structure, licensing, zoning, protecting your business assets, employer responsibilities and business insurance. (Business plan review) CLASS THREE: Business Taxes Monday, March 27, 2023, 6 - 9pm Gain a solid understanding of taxes required for small business owners and develop the best tax strategy for your business. Become familiar with the latest tax forms and procedures for both state and federal taxes. Discover how everyday business decisions can have tax implications that can affect your bottom line. This seminar is important for both new and experienced business owners. (Business plan review) CLASS FOUR: How to Find Your Customers (Market Research) Monday, April 5, 2023, […]