December 22, 2024

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The STURDY Act, Betty Washington, and another American blue dress mystery.

Portrait of Betty Washington Lewis, 1750, by John Wollaston the Younger, Mount Vernon Ladies Association, public domain.

One of the topics in a recent morning meeting was the implementation of the STURDY Act.  So what is this new law that no one has every heard of?  The Stop Tip-overs of Unstable Risky Dressers on Youth Act mandates new guidelines and restrictions on the furniture industry to prevent top heavy casegoods from killing people.  Colleagues sat aghast that Congress has nothing better on which to be working but to screw over our livelyhoods. “This must be a knee-jerk reaction to the death of George Washington’s sister,” I commented.  “She was killed while rooting around in a highboy for …continue reading