On the surface, they may look like any other Adirondack chairs, but these Adirondack chairs are special. They have greater value. That’s because they have a story. And that story begins at a high school in Peoria, Illinois.

As a part of Caterpillar’s ongoing focus on the skilled trades, a group at Caterpillar Building LL recently partnered with Manual Academy to help expand the school’s manufacturing technology programs with the Manual Weld Training program, which was instituted in 2010.

The goal of ...