Our Foliage Season: A Time of Need For A VT Visit

Foliage season in our area is perhaps the most stunning Fall experience in the Northeast. Vermont and the Slate Valley Region shine with a colorful glow in a dry, cool air atmosphere. A setting that brings many to peace and relaxation as the climate changes to more mellow times.

In honor of our regions beauty this time of year, and with it’s staple natural resource, our Slate Top Furniture is not only a mark of locally made craftsmanship, but an attitude and design that very much exudes this Fall season.

Manchester Wood's Slate Top Furniture Collection features local resources in both slate and wood as well as crafted in our mill in the Slate Valley Region.

From slate top end tables to coffee tables, and more, Manchester Wood has worked to provide a product that shows our local pride but with a design of global appeal. An attitude that very much resembles Vermont, which is in a darker time but with a glimmering approach in survival.

Vermont, Manchester Wood‘s birthplace has taken a heavy hit with Hurricane Irene, the devastation to business, homes, roads, and historic bridges has been near catastrophic for many.

It’s fitting though, that Fall, our busiest tourist season has arrived in a time where visits are at there most needed for business and community, to a state derived from independence and a peaceful, positive spirit.

Be sure to visit Vermont this serene season, support what it provides.  It almost metaphorically resembles the need to domestically become more aware as a country fighting to provide in a world of a select power.

Visit the Hurricane Irene Flood Relief Fund page to support small businesses effected in Vermont: http://www.vtirenefund.org/

To visit Manchester Wood’s slate top collection click here.

School Season: An Opportunity for Made in USA

Although this article doesn’t pertain so much to first year college students, or those boarding for high school studies where most furniture is supplied in dorm living; this blog focuses more on the student returning this school season with a more definitive approach on his or her’s future.

Our Portable Work Desk -- Perfect for any small living space or mobile environment. Only $89.95 + FREE Shipping

We can’t think of better items for study and work than our American made solid wood desk furniture. Providing your child or yourself with a product that will not only last beyond the school years, but also instill a powerful conscious decision that will help our next generation understand, touch, and feel apart of the difference between products made domestically to cheap overseas pieces that resemble how they’re made — with a vicious method in business regulation and employee satisfaction — which is found to be almost non-existent.

The more we pump money into a system far away from here where we can’t see to feel bad about, the more we need to start to look around, grow a heart for ourselves, and leave Washington politics and executive money hunger to the 1% making the billions we admire.

Let us start our young budding professionals on the right path. Don’t buy cheap furniture for them from China or Vietnam, buy them something their kids will not only be able to use but feel honored about. A piece of furniture that has meaning, its not something you know you’ll throw away in a few years to a landfill already past its limit.

Consider Manchester Wood as your leading provider in American made solid wood furniture.

To view our desk collection for this new school season, click here.

Labor Day

Grover Cleveland

Grover Cleveland isn’t known for much as President of this grand country of ours, and that’s typically a good sign. He reined in an era of no major wars, conflicts, or treacherous natural disasters that we exist in today. He was a pro-business man, and business had the main issues during his two terms.

So, with a mostly clean slate and America humming along with our newfound machines, the beginning of the industrial age, an exploding domestic boom in manufacturing was moving briskly along. President Cleveland made the labor movement, the interests of the blue-collar man and the owners where they worked, a high priority. A stake not many in Washington hold true today.

Although, the only real move Grover Cleveland made during his tenure that still captures our conscious was the holiday, Labor Day.

It began like most national holidays, recognized first locally, which occurred in New York with the Central Labor Union, and after twelve years it became a nationwide celebration following a tragedy where a number of workers on strike died at the hands of the U.S. military and U.S. Marshals during the famous “Pullman Strike.”

The event entails great tragedy, unlawful Government actions, and fatality, but represents a business era we’re experiencing today. A fight seeking a lawful representation of the American business, their rights, both as workers and owners, whom loyally stand behind them the basic principles of economics.

Manchester Wood has stood behind the principles of the American workers, and continues to do so while providing the best in customer service, savings, and a quality item that will last for generations.

On behalf of all of us at “the mill” we’d love you to consider buying your next furniture pieces from Manchester Wood. Our Chairside Storage Table is spotlighted below.

To visit our online store: www.manchesterwood.com

What better item to have to fit in that narrow space between your favorite chairs. Hidden storage for stashing all those necessary but cluttering items...TV remotes, reading glasses, etc. This is a very popular item! A great space saver!

Chairside Storage Table

Dimensions: 11″W x 23″D x 24″H

Hidden Storage: 7″W x 11.5″D x 2.5″H

Comes fully assembled.

Price: $199.95 + FREE SHIPPING

Current Reviews:

“Purchased this table unfinished so I could stain it to match my other furniture. Great quality and solid Ash construction (no veneers). Came well packaged and fast shipping. Worth the price in my opinion for solid wood. (Posted on 7/15/11) by quilter mom”

“Just received the 2 that I purchased and are perfect for the area that we have. Craftsmanship is much more than I expected and looking forward to doing more business with this company. Thank you for the speedy order and the way it was packaged and delivered to our door. (Posted on 7/14/11) by Ida May”

“We purchased this Chairside table for my Mom to put next to recliner. It is perfect it has all the storage she needs and it is level with her chair so it is perfect. We are very pleased with the quality and craftsmanship of the work on the table. I highly recommend this table. (Posted on 2/18/11)”