Millyard Museum exhibit looks at history of public housing in Manchester

Monday, June 10, 2024Monday, May 20, 2024

Hoopla over hoops: Wolfe Park is the latest city basketball court to get a makeover

Monday, June 10, 2024Saturday, May 13, 2023

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.

Treasure trove: Big Top posters created by famed comics artist discovered in hospital storage

Monday, June 10, 2024Tuesday, April 25, 2023

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.

The hunt for history: Run club discovers the city’s hidden gems

Monday, June 10, 2024Thursday, April 13, 2023

On this particular night, I’m joining in on a “Historical Scavenger Hunt” organized by run club member and local historian Stan Garrity.

Author Mia Mask, on restoring critical history of Black Westerns in American film culture

Monday, June 10, 2024Sunday, April 2, 2023

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.

Local historian discovers origin of city’s first female parking officers

Monday, June 10, 2024Friday, March 24, 2023

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.

The other March Madness: NH Maple Weekend reaches its zenith

Monday, June 10, 2024Monday, March 20, 2023

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.