“Tea and Silk” — presentation by Penny West
Manchester History Center 175 Pine Street, Manchester, United StatesPenny will present an illustrated talk about her great-grandparents, Gustavus Farley Jr. and Katharine Cheney Farley. Katharine, the daughter of the youngest of the Cheneys who founded Manchester's silk industry, married a tea merchant from Massachusetts, and in 1880, they traveled to Japan, where her husband based his tea-importing firm. There in Yokohama, the 26-year-old […]
