Fer cryin' out loud, Globe, he was all done anyway!
How about some factory closing? Can you go down there?
"Chair City is uneasy as furniture work ebbs; Gardner feels a loss of historic identity" by Mark Arsenault, Globe Correspondent | January 20, 2009
GARDNER - .... It is the only job Leonard Curcio has ever had, and now, as he is going blind at age 80, his hands do work he can no longer see. He is among the last living remnants of Gardner's long furniture-making heritage, which suffered a devastating loss last summer with the closing of Nichols & Stone, the oldest continuously operating furniture manufacturer in the country and the last large furniture factory in a community once defined by them.
"Now when people come to Gardner the first thing they ask is, 'Why is this called Chair City?' " said Curcio, his voice tinged with lament....
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