Case Antiques is delighted to welcome The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts to East Tennessee! MESDA, based in Winston-Salem, NC, is bringing its 2012 Conference on Material Culture to Knoxville Oct. 25-27. The MESDA conference is the only major forum for scholarly presentation on American material culture and decorative arts with a specific emphasis on the South. It includes a day of presentations and lectures on everything from Tennessee samplers to Agricultural Coin Silver, and will be held at The East Tennesssee Historical Society. The event also includes a day of field trips to regional museums and historic collections, one of which will be co-led by John Case. For more information, visit: MESDA Conference Website