Manchester quiz. Can you answer these questions?

Where is this building? In what century was it built? From what publication are the picture and text taken?

Hints: • The publication is on our website. • The living area is 6151 s.f.

Extra credit: For whom was it built?

Aerial view of the Cheney mill complex -- photo by Sinch Ofiara. For a larger view: former mill buildings.

The Manchester Sculpture Project is raising funds for the Miss Elisabeth Bennet statue, which will be located at Bennet Academy. All welcome to this outdoor event in Coventry.

Saturday, September 4. Old Manchester Museum is 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.

SPECIAL ART program on Sunday, September 12. Woodbridge Farmstead -- Members of the Manchester Art Association will joins and set up their easels to paint scenes of our property. Some art work will be available for sale. Assakita Farm will bring baby animals for a small petting zoo. Tour our 250-year-old barn and our property. There's ongoing work reconstructing the Edward Street barn on our grounds, so check out our progress as we build our new welcome center and museum display area. The Farmstead is located at 495 East Middle Turnpike. Park on the street or at the nearby Senior Center.The open house, with tours of the barn and gardens, is from noon to 2:00 p.m.

SPECIAL "SUMMERTIME" PRESENTATION on Sunday, September 12. Cheney Homestead -- the Town Historian will present historical tidbits from Manchester's summertimes, along with vintage summer music by Sandra Johnson and Dan Thompson at 1:30 p.m.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.

The History Center is still 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.

Peruse the entire 8/27/1936 edition here.

Browse all The Heralds here.

August 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.

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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.

New classes have been added for children and adults.

Pictured on right, art studio, 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, although this part of the building dates to the early 20th century.

Counting down to Manchester's 200th anniversary year, which begins January 1, 2023: 492 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.

Try the State Historian's latest trivia quiz here. And sign up for daily emails. Free and informative.

Pictured on the right is the 1881 home at 118 Main Street, built for Dr. and Mrs. Franklin B. Adams, who are pictured below right, in an image from an article in our "Storytellers" book, about medical doctors who came to Manchester. The (above) black and white image of the house, and the text describing the house's features, are from the Architectural and Historic Surveys on our website. This particular house is described here in the survey.

By the way, thanks to volunteer Jim Hall, we now have a detailed index of people in Storytellers book. The book itself is in the reprints section of our website, if you want to browse. But the new index helps a lot if you're trying to locate something specific.

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.

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. .