Honoring Joe McCluskey
By Rick Dyer, archivist of the Manchester Road Race Committee Spoken at a reception celebrating Joe on Friday, May 19, 2017 Twelve-year-old Joe McCluskey bounds out the front door and […]
Joe McCluskey, “Manchester’s Greatest Runner”
Compiled by webmaster Susan Barlow Running legend Joseph Paul McCluskey was born in Manchester, Connecticut, on June 2, 1911, one of six children of John and Catherine (née McStea) McCluskey, […]
Friendship: He was Dick and I was Johnnie
by John H. McHughoriginally from the Manchester Herald, 5/3/1988reprinted from Old Manchester II … The Storytellers, published 1995 by the Manchester Historical Society To the editor: Dick Cobb and I went […]
Hazel Lutz And Her Dream
Reprinted with permission Hazel Lutz envisioned a museum only for children, where they could learn and play, and not be told “Don’t Touch.” Her dream came true in 1953, when […]
Miss Mary Cheney
Originally published in the January 25, 1967 Manchester Evening Herald. Webmaster’s notes: In the early days of the Manchester Historical Society, members wrote articles about the town’s past, which were […]
Gladys Adams, Historian (1910-2001)
This article about Gladys Adams appeared July 23, 1992 in The Manchester Extra, a weekly insert in The Hartford Courant after the closing of The Manchester Herald in 1991. Gladys’s […]
