In this issue: Among collectors of Americana, Governor Thompson walks tall; American furniture fills a Hudson Valley novel; Richard Adams: An eighteenth-century upstart paints the social animal; A panorama of American highboys; Currier & Ives take the chill off the New England winter; Yesterday's sleds are today's antiques; How King Gustav brought neoclassicism to Scandinavia; Eva Zeisel -- she made the plates that every '40s couple bought; The Georgian sugar shaker; Christian Goller--a young painter of old masters; Frederic Edwin Church: The painter's great-great granddaughter presents his 1868 diaries for the first time; Rembrandt Peale paints a spectacle of spectacles.