Stories from Manchester CT, Bicentennial Celebration 1823-2023

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Share and preserve your story. Ensure that your story and your lived experience in Manchester is preserved for future generations.

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Storytelling has the transformative power to connect people around their common humanity.  It can also connect us through our shared sense of community and the spaces in which we live, learn, laugh, love, celebrate, and adventure.  The highs and lows, the ups and downs.  Whether you are telling tales of struggle and triumph, love and loss, hardship, and pain, rollicking good fun or misadventures…whatever directions your stories veer, they will be welcomed.

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Recent  Manchester  Stories
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I was born in Vernon Connecticut November 22nd, 2005. My parents came from Chicago and Massachusetts . . .

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Conversation between Joe Composeo and James Cooney – long-time friends and residents Recorded by . . .

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Ethan lived on Tanner Street. He walked with his mother and sister to school each day. He would soak . . .

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