Maybe because a fifties lamp could be a lot of different styles and Mid-Century Modern is specific style? One of those lamps with a Bullfighter base and a red silk shade is fifties, right?

What she said! Only, I wasn't going to use question marks. MCM is a style ref like "Deco" that's tied loosely to a time period, but that isn't the only style going down at the time.

Hec, that article, although interesting (thanks again, flea!) didn't mention anything about house vs. field slaves.

That's why I'm mystified that Mom prefers ND.

Heh. Hee. I skimmed to the end and read this snippet out of context. I was about to pout: Hey! I thought your mom liked me better! She hasn't even MET ND yet!

Hec, that article, although interesting (thanks again, flea!) didn't mention anything about house vs. field slaves.

Dang! Yeah, I didn't find the research I had mentioned in the other stuff I dug up either.

But I'm pretty sure the slave graveyard was in New York somewhere.

Huh. Reasons going in and paying rent in person is good, include this guy. He was showing off some of his portfolio and there were these pictures where he was "sweaty" and "wounded" and a little "battered" so now Ima go have an impure thought about my neighbor.

Hey, I have to pay rent tonight too...

You should come pay rent here. The rats are low and guys are smokin' hot.

oohhh

Hec, was it in conjunction with this exhibit?

But I'm pretty sure the slave graveyard was in New York somewhere.

The one they just found a few years ago? Yep.

ETA: I'll bet this is an interesting watch - Slavery’s Buried Past A documentary on the discovery, in 1991, of a slave graveyard, a few miles from Wall Street in New York City, and the ensuing controversies.