Many hands shaped this potter’s career decision

Matt Hallyburton ’07 grew up in Rutherford College, North Carolina, a town of 1,200 people where the Piedmont’s rolling terrain begins rising to the Blue Ridge Mountains. As a kid, he explored the woods and the water, then backpacked and hiked as a teenager. The Catawba River flows through the area, and the valley spans several counties and adjoining areas between Hickory and Morganton. The…