Honoring Joe McCluskey
![Joe, second from left, captain of the South Manchester High School (SMHS) track team, 1928-29.](https://cdn.manchesterhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/04100704/Team-Captain-Joe-McClusky.jpg)
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”
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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
![(Ed. Note: Richard "Dick" Cobb, 69, former Manchester High School athletic director, died April 20, 1988.)](https://cdn.manchesterhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/04080526/Richard-Cobb.jpg)
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
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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
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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)
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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 […]