Old Try

We make goods for Home & Away. And that's just that. About Our Origin, from Founder Micah Whitson
I had to get out of the South. But not just yet.

Old Try is a art and apparel brand featuring a sense of place and the things that remind us of home (with a heavy focus in the American South). Founded in 2012 by Micah and Marianna Whitson, Old Try is now operated out of Almost Heaven, West Virginia by Kelli Steele and her husband Jeff Brown. Though my wife had lived in London and Manhattan, I’d never lived North of the Mason-Dixon line. So in ’0

7, we packed up the car and headed North. Like other Ex-Pat Southerners who had pangs of being away from home, I started thinking more about the South. About our collective pasts and our undetermined futures. And much to my surprise, I wanted to get back. After the Alabama tornadoes in April of '11, I just couldn't help expressing my broken heart for my smashed state. I saw the helicopter footage of those thinned forests and broken towns. Places I knew well were being broadcast on the television a thousand miles away, and I didn’t have one neighbor who knew those places like I did. I spent a good deal of time living in Mississippi, and Faulkner said to write what you know. Old Try started that way. By writing and designing Southern things for folks who lived in and out of the South. Things that connect people to a place they go to in their dreams, or a place they could never convince themselves to leave. We spent six winters in Boston and then took a sabbatical to have our daughter in North Carolina. Where her mom was born and where her mom was born and where her mom was born. Now we're back in New England. That’s where our son was born. And we carry with us those memories of being back home, and being home. And that’s just what will keep driving us to make things that can take y’all there, whether you’re living in the South or not.

05/30/2026

One last anniversary hurrah - orders are 20% off through tomorrow with code FIFTEENYEARS.

Then let’s go for 15 more! ⚒️

05/26/2026

Make Good #44 is available in the shop. Pick your side on this one.

05/24/2026

Still celebrating 15 years this month. Get 30% off all prints (includes clearance) through Monday.

05/22/2026

Words worth remembering this Memorial Day Weekend.

05/07/2026

We were in Alabama this week - full of the best surprises. Had to sketch a few stops for posterity. You’re a beautiful state, AL.

05/02/2026

“You truly have the loveliest village behind you.” Words of encouragement to today’s graduates as we celebrate JB’s baby sister’s graduation. 🦅

04/28/2026

The stories these walls could tell.

03/05/2026

Last week I was in Louisiana for a conference (for my day job), and toured a tiny perique to***co farm run by a father and son. Rarest variety in the world. The process is wholly manual and takes 18 months to go from seed to shipment. Then it heads to South Carolina in used whiskey barrels from Tennessee to be blended with other varieties grown in Virginia and North Carolina. If that isn’t a story from the South I don’t know what is.

02/27/2026

Good to be back in the company of the live oaks for a few days.

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Boston, MA

Telephone

+13397070879

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http://www.theoldtry.com/, http://instagram.com/theoldtry, http://pinterest.com/oldtry/, https://twitter.com/TheOldTry

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