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Apple Fest program on Sunday, September 26, from noon to 2:00 p.m. at Woodbridge Farmstead -- Take a stroll through our 18^th century barn. There will be rock painting for children and adults. Paint a rock and put it in your garden at home or wherever you’d like. Apple treats will be available! The work of reconstructing another old barn on the property has begun -- come and check on the progress of the work on our new welcome center and museum display area is progressing. The Farmstead is located at 495 East Middle Turnpike. Park on the street or at the nearby Senior Center. Our Woodbridge open houses continue on the second and fourth Sundays of month, noon to 2:00 p.m. through October.

Saturday, October 2. Old Manchester Museum -- open the first Saturday of the month, 10:00 to 2:00, hosted by Bob Kanehl and Art Pongratz, who can help you with some research, using our collection of town directories. Located at 126 Cedar Street, the former schoolhouse's exhibits include copies of old maps, examples of Cheney silk, Pitkin glass, Spencer rifles, Case water-bottling works items. Museum open May to December. There is a small museum store with local history items: books, maps, Pitkin jewelry items, etc.

Sunday, October 10. Cheney Homestead -- this month celebrating the harvest. The Homestead is open the second Sunday of the month, from 1:00 to 4:00, hosted by Peter Millett and the Homestead committee. The 1785 Homestead & Keeney Schoolhouse are located at 106 Hartford Road. Tour the house and gardens. Free, donations welcome. BettyLou Sandy will lead some harvesting in the Homestead gardens.

The History Center is under construction, but the museum store and offices are open Tuesday through Friday 10:00 to 2:00. The center is located in the former Cheney machine shop, 175 Pine Street.

Tidbits from September 24, 1971. See the whole edition. Browse all The Heralds here.

Above: In 1971, the Lutz Museum was located at 126 Cedar Street, the current location of our Old Manchester Museum. The building is owned by the Town of Manchester.

Below: Part of the "About Town" column.

New for kids during October: “Art of North America” Click the image on the right for more info. Ongoing and new offerings. Info: art classes at the History Center. Questions may be directed to Trudy Mitchell. ONGOING: Classical Drawing -- "Learn the art and science of accurate drawing based on traditional 19th-century methods." Six-week sessions on Saturdays from 9:30-12:30.

The art studio is located in the lower level of History Center, a 42,000-square-foot building that used to be the Cheney Machine Shop, and is now on the National Register of Historic Places. The Center was built beginning in 1895.

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Please contact: Kevin Ferrigno. All responses will remain confidential. Note: the image above left is of the dial on a tall case clock made by Timothy Cheney, c. 1770-1783, in the collection of the Manchester Historical Society.

Counting down to Manchester's 200th anniversary year, which begins January 1, 2023: 464 days.

The Manchester Historical Society is planning exciting activities for the Town's year-long bicentennial celebration. Check out the activities of the 1923 celebration, documented in this booklet on our website.

1938 view of Moriarty Brothers, corner of Center and Broad Streets. More about Moriarty Brothers.

The Cheney store was located on the southeast corner of Charter Oak and South Main Streets. 150 years ago this month, The Courant rhapsodized, "The front of the store is well lighted with high and broad windows and large panes of glass, and ten handsome gas chandeliers." Read more about the Cheney store and its changes over the years. It was torn down during the construction of I-384. Thanks, Douglas Welch, for research and transcription.

Above, 1905 postcard of the former Cheney store.

Enjoy the large collection of Somanhis (South Manchester High School) yearbooks on our website. In addition to photos of the graduating seniors, these books have ads for local businesses, photos of school activities, and sometimes poetry and prose by the students. Thanking our volunteers, especially Bob Gauthier, Noreen Cullen, Jim Hall, Joshua Pruden, Dick Jenkins, Susan Barlow.

September TV show airs at noon and 8:00 p.m. Saturdays throughout this month --"Growing up Around Highland Park,” a 55-minute television show of a conversation among old friends who roamed the woods and ponds of the Highland Park section of Manchester in the 1960s and 1970s, before the construction of I-384. Mason Thrall, Wes Vancour, and Ken Russell reminisce about fishing, swimming, and occasionally getting into trouble. The show airs at 12:00 noon and 8:00 p.m. on Cox cable channel 15 on Saturdays, and runs on all the Saturdays of the month. The show changes each month. This Channel 15 broadcasts in Manchester, Glastonbury, South Windsor, Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington. The television show is produced by Susan Barlow, directed by Kathryn Wilson, researched by Jill Gelinas, all volunteers of the Manchester Historical Society. You can watch this month's show right on your computer through the Public Access website: "Growing Up Around Highland Park." You can watch some of our previous shows by selecting "Manchester Program Schedule" (the second tab) on the local Public Access website and on the next screen, type Historical into the search box.

Consider a gift membership for a friend or loved one. Why join a local historical society, even if you don't live in that town? Some reasons: • support education about the history of the town • support preservation of artifacts and vintage photos • join in advocating for preservation of historic buildings and parks that make Manchester charming.

Print this online donation form and mail to 175 Pine Street. Or drop by the History Center, Tuesdays through Fridays from 10:00 to 2:00. Direct questions to 860-647-9983.

Additional ways to donate: Employer matching gifts! Direct United Way donations to the Society. Sign in to Amazon via Amazon Smile and have a percentage of your purchases go to the Society. .