This is a story I wrote for the magazine Fifteen501 about world famous folk artist, Clyde Jones:



CLYDE JONES
Chatham County's Critter Artist Extraordinaire

Written by L. Haywood Coffey
Photography by Gregory Georges

It's not every day the most famous ballet dancer in the world pulls up in his limo in front of your house to chat and look around, but that's exactly what happened when Mikhail Baryshnikov drove into the tiny town of Bynum to check out the artistic creations of folk artist Clyde Jones.

It's not unusual for people to drive up for a view of the “Critters” that inhabit the Jones estate, but it is unusual for one so well known to arrive, and it was probably more unusual when the driver of Barishnikov's limo asked Jones about his famous passenger: “Do you know how famous that man is?” to which Jones replied, “Well if he's heard of me, and I've never heard of him, I must be more famous than him.”


FULL STORY