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5 Road Trips for 5 States North Georgia Women Seize the Spotlight The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Sunday, March 7, 2021 LEISUREGUIDE CLASSICPUPPETS, E LIVING & ARTS NEWSONGS, PAPERBACKS,E2 News: [email protected] | Delivery: ajc.com/customercare or 404-522-4141 INSPIRE ATLANTA GIVING BACK Where she beat ONLY IN THE AJC VISUAL ARTS cancer as child, nurse helps kids Experience helps her understand their journey, build connections. By Helena Oliviero [email protected] Amelia Ballard was working at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta as a nurse in the emer- gency room department when an opportu- nity opened up at the hospital’s Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center. She knew that’s where she belonged. She’s known that since she was a little girl. “It’s been my dream my entire life,” said Bal- lard, who works at Children’s Egleston campus and is now 27. “Since I was probably 3 years old when I was surrounded by a wonderful medical team,I knew I wanted to be a nurse.” As a young child, Ballard was hospital- COURTESY OF FOLK POTTERY MUSEUM OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA ized most of the time over a two-year-long period at Children’s. By the time she was 5 Above: The legendary Arie Meaders started in the art of years old, the girl from Macon had beat leu- pottery in the 1960s. kemia twice. Little Amelia underwent several Top left: Having married into the Meaders dynasty, Jessie rounds of chemotherapy and then received a Meaders did not start throwing pots until later in life. bone marrow transplant. COURTESY OF EMORY JONES Left: Mildred Meaders took up pottery when she was 40. It was a grueling recovery journey. But it wasn’t all bad. The petite woman with hazel eyes remembers good days and being sur- rounded by lots of love while being a young North Georgia women Nurse continued on E6 seize the spotlight Matriarchs of the region’s pottery dynasties get their due. ARTEVENT By Candice Dyer “The Men Won’t Tell Us Anything: Women of Georgia Folk For the AJC Pottery.” Free. Runs through July. Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia, Jeanie Daves was preparing to 283 GA 255, Sautee Nacoochee. 706-878-3300, snca.org teach a beginners’ pottery class in Amelia Ballard, then a pediatric nurse at Clarkesville when she glanced at a Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s Egleston list of her students. location, engages her 8-month-old patient, Two women on it had an eye-pop- Olen, in the emergency room in 2016. AJC FILE ping surname: Meaders. Could this be the pottery royalty recognized by the Smithsonian Institution, the National Endowment for the Arts and the ADVENTURES IN FOOD Library of Congress? “I thought the Art-Full Barn was playing a joke on me, but in they walked,” Daves says Girl Scouts past, with a laugh. “Ruby and Jessie Mead- ers turned out to be from that famous present celebrate family widely known for their signa- ture face jugs. I asked them why they cookie tradition would sign up for this class when they’ve been around clay all of their Relatives team up to bake versions lives, and they said, ‘The men won’t tell us anything.’” of classic Trefoil shortbreads. Mildred Meaders’ In the last century, folk pot- “Devil Politician” tery was very much a patriarchal By C.W. Cameron face jug. domain. Men turned and burned For the AJC COURTESY OF utilitarian stoneware while their WILLIAM M. HOUSE wives tended to children and the There are those who swear they get farm. Fathers passed the tradition to through the winter only because it brings the their sons, eventually forming what arrival of Girl Scout Cookies. A rustic are known as multigenerational Was it just last year that glossy boxes of piece “clay clans” or “clay dynasties” Tagalongs and Thin Mints beckoned from by Arie tables outside grocery stores, and you were Meaders, Potters continued on E8 tempted to order from the lists your col- the leagues circulated at the office? How are matriarch Girl Scout Cookies fans getting their fill now of the that COVID-19 has changed the way we live? Meaders Should we celebrate Girl Scout Sunday today clay by baking our own? dynasty. In Woodstock, Michele Samuel and her COURTESY OF daughters, Leigha, 11, and Lundyn, 10, baked WILLIAM M. a 1922 recipe for the equivalent of the Tre- HOUSE foil, the classic shortbread cookie that’s been around since 1917. They chatted about the experience via Zoom after they finished. They had gathered at their kitchen island Cookies continued on E6 PAGE E11 INSPIRE ATLANTA PAGE E4 RESTAURANT STEPS IN VIVIDACCOUNTOF OWNER OF BABS MIDTOWN CREATES TZEDAKAH HISTORIC TRAGEDY PROJECT TO HELP THOSE HURT BY PANDEMIC ‘SURVIVING SAVANNAH’ BOOK REVIEW SPRING TRAVEL GUIDE SPECIAL SECTION INSIDE CREDIBLE. COMPELLING. COMPLETE. E15 ONSTITUTION SUNDAY, MARCH 7, 2021 THE ATLANTAJOURNAL-C BACK TAG> <PAGELABEL ELABEL TAG> TR AVEL <PAG SSEE · THE CAROLINAS SUNDAY, tom3strtag> ALABAMA · FLORIDA · TENNE MARCH 7, 2021 <cus SUNDAY, MARCH 7, 2021 THE ATL ANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION ANTAJOURNA 7, 2021 THEATL L-CONSTITUTION AY, MARCH SUND SUND COMPELLING. COMPLETE. AY, MARCH E16 CREDIBLE. 7, 2021 CONSTITUTION THE NAL- ATLANT CREDIBLE. COMPE JOUR AJ LLING.COMPLETE. ANTA OURNA E17 TL L-CO THEA NSTITUTION <PAGELABEL TAG> TR GUIDE SPRING TRAVEL AVEL 5 road trips for 5 states SPRING TRAVELIDE SPRINGGUIDE TRAVEL GU CREDIBLE. COMPELLIN G. PLETE. COMPLETE. 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