Furniture manufacturing at Standard Furniture is expected to be back to 100 percent by Monday following fires Tuesday night, April 5, at the two sawdust collection silos.

For those who want to get a better handle on what became of the once illustrious U.S. furniture industry, I strongly recommend reading, "The Furniture Wars: How America Lost a Fifty Billion Dollar Industry." In it, author Michael Dugan, former president and CEO of Henredon Industries, serves up an insider's account of one failed attempt after another by "outsiders" to rule the roost.

By Brad Walseth - Frank Vargo handcrafts fine traditional Windsor chairs, while teaching a new generation to reinvent woodworking.