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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;James Conrad, post: 263069, member: 5066&quot;]OK! Thought you might have added to some of the north VS south drama that has taken place in the past.</p><p>The gauntlet was thrown down in 1949, when Joseph Downs, curator of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, addressing Colonial Williamsburg&#039;s Antique Forum said &quot; that nothing of artistic merit was made south of Baltimore&quot;.</p><p>BAM! It was on like a neckbone in the south land (no, i don&#039;t know what southerners mean exactly when they say that but it&#039;s not a good thing).&nbsp; With that, the crusade to prove Downs and all other Yankee snobs wrong was on. Frank Horton, the visionary antique dealer &amp; founder of MESDA (museum of early southern decorative arts) got much of the money to start MESDA from the RJ Reynolds family. It opened in 1965 &amp; the rest as they say, is history.</p><p>Horton is the guy who found that court cupboard above on a back porch loaded up with chicken feed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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