Kathy Atwater - On pottage field (clip)
Interviewed on March 26, 2025
Kathy Atwater (KA): Can I add too, and just hearing this, because growing up, I did not know that this was Pottersfield. The parents called it Pottage, Pottage Field which had a different connotation for me growing up because “pottage field,” and like Brother Williams said, “potter’s field” according to the Bible is the place of the dead. And so by them telling us that it is Pottage Field that gave us more of…We were happy to be home, because in this area, and to hear what he’s saying and Pat’s saying, it makes me appreciate the elders more because they protected us from all that they had to face and it gave us an opportunity to succeed and go forward. So, I just wanted to point out that Pottage Field is what I learned what this was called.
Student: How do you spell that?
KA: P-O-T-T-A-G-E
