I was in North Carolina this past week, 'drinking the Kool-Aid' at a classic furniture factory; Hickory Chair.
We spent a day at the Biltmore Estate, viewing America's largest private home, then had dinner at a place that boasts the largest bbq platters, served on garbage pail lids.
In the Vanderbilt estate, we viewed master portraits by John Singer Sargent, then later in the trip some of our party visited Priscilla's Adult Gifts.
It was quite the heady cultural mix.