Posts by Alex Fleming
MANCHESTER, NH – On Wednesday, May 8, a small crowd of privileged guests filled the exhibit hall of the Millyard
Wolfe Park, located just off South Main Street in southwest Manchester, is on its way to be the latest success in Manchester’s plan to reinvigorate and support its basketball community.Â
This is a story about the rich and unexpected history that hides in unassuming towns and cities all throughout the country, including Manchester. In this case, how you can find links to some of the biggest cultural and historical phenomena in the smallest of places – like a forgotten hospital storage room.Â
On this particular night, I’m joining in on a “Historical Scavenger Hunt” organized by run club member and local historian Stan Garrity.
Last Wednesday, Manchester Public Library in conjunction with Ashland Public Library hosted Mia Mask, author of and professor of film at Vassar College, to talk about her new book, Black Rodeo: A History of The African American Western and how Black film pioneers started with a small and subtle voice and eventually grew to a cinematic force.Â
As a historian for Manchester Historical Society, it is Stan Garrity’s job to dig through the piles and piles of records that jealously horde Manchester’s forgotten stories and secrets and decipher them for the rest of us.
Maple Weekend is an annual celebration put on by the New Hampshire Maple Producers Association between March 18 and 19 to spur interest in and support New Hampshire maple producers. People truly make a weekend out of it, trying to visit as many sugarbushes as they can; quite the challenge with 157 different sugar bushes in the state. Â Â