1. “Diversity and Innovation in American Regional Furniture” was sponsored by the Wadsworth Atheneum, Trinity College, and the Chipstone Foundation and held at Hartford, Connecticut, in 1993. The papers presented at this symposium appeared in Luke Beckerdite and William N. Hosley, eds., American Furniture (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England for the Chipstone Foundation, 1995). 2. Conversations with Frank L. Horton and Joe Kindig, III. Antiques 4, no. 4 (October 1923): 193. 3. Paul H. Burroughs, Southern Antiques (Richmond: Garrett & Massie, Inc., 1931), p. v. 4. Conversations with Frank L. Horton. 5. The author thanks Frank Horton, Martha Rowe, and Cornelia Wright of MESDA for information on MESDA’s programs and artisan and photographic files. 6. Colonial Williamsburg Today 3, no. 2 (spring 1981). William N. Hosely, “Regional Furniture/Regional Life,” in Beckerdite and Hosley, eds., American Furniture, p. 6. 7. See, for example, Maurie D. McInnis and Robert A. Leath, “Beautiful Specimens, Elegant Patterns: New York Furniture for the Charleston Market, 1810–1840,” in American Furniture, edited by Luke Beckerdite (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England for the Chipstone Foundation, 1996), pp. 137–75.