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Meadville, Pa., Man Builds New Life, Furniture after Ethan Allen Plant Closes.

By Jim Martin, Erie Times-News, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 9--MEADVILLE, Pa. -- For 25 years, Ethan Allen's Cherry Hill Division gave Gary Blake the job he needed.

When the 100-year-old Union City plant closed last year, it gave Blake the freedom he craved.

The 50-year-old Blake admits that he wasn't sure what to do with that freedom at first.

For years he had watched his wife, well-known local artist Leslie Blake, build a successful small business in a studio attached to their Richmond Township home. His wife, a

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