The art of sculpting clay into usable form by hand is perhaps one of our oldest human traditions.  Buried underneath the top layer of our concrete and technological modern detritus are the collected shards of our hand-formed story, hidden in the dirt.  We make things well; we are a breed of animal that enjoys a dose of beauty blended with our function, and this aesthetic pre-dates remembered history.  With a nod to the past, authors Warren and Julie Payne focused their attention on the clay works of the last century chronicled in their new book, Clear as Mud: Early 20