Manchester Events

When a stack of “slavery porn” novels written by her long-dead father landed on Julia’s kitchen table, she had been in an interracial marriage for six years and hid them out of shame. The Book Keeper is equal parts love story, family interrogation, and racial reckoning as Munemo comes to terms with her whiteness and with her history.

Get in touch with the major issues in our community and welcome Jim Sullivan, executive director of the BCRC when he discusses  and answers your questions on current, local issues like energy and climate goals, water quality, recycling and more!

WE REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.  WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.

Margaret Winslow, an overworked college professor in New York City, answered a for-sale ad for a "Large White Saddle Donkey." Hilarity ensued, along with life-threatening injuries,  spirit-enriching insight, humiliating races, and the discovery of Caleb the Donkey’s true gifts: a willingness to be true to himself no matter the circumstances.

Join us for a ticketed dinner at Bonnet and Main with cookbook author Anna Francese Gass.  Heirloom Kitchen is a glorious cookbook and a celebration of the culinary traditions of immigrant women.  Bonnet and Main will prepare two dishes from the book.  Tickets include your meal and a copy of Heirloom Kitchen!

Bonnet and Main will prepare from Heirloom Kitchen:

This journalist and historian examines our impact on water and water’s impact on us from the Industrial Revolution to the present day.  Focusing on a stream in New Hampshire and how it has been affected by changes in technology, economics, pollution, new ideas,and human action, Water Connections is a book of sobering lessons and of beauty and passion.

Writer, gardener, and Buddhist practitioner, Cheryl Wilfong responded to her cancer diagnosis from the depth of her meditation practice--she would not “fight” it, but experience it.  This pragmatic and uplifting guide won the 2019 Independent Publishers of New England Book of the Year award.