Though North Carolina has welcomed the recent arrival of a certain Scandinavian furniture mecca, the state has a rich history as the "Furniture Capital of the World." Patricia Phillips Marshall, coauthor of Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color, provides an entry in the Encyclopedia of North Carolina that gives a brief account of the furniture boom and its recent hardships in North Carolina. The online NCpedia, maintained by the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources, offers an excerpt from Marshall's Encyclopedia article, accompanied by a great slideshow that provides an inside view of...