“Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South”
By Winfred Rembert as told to Erin I. Kelly (284 pages, Memoir, Autobiography, Art, 2021) Winfred Rembert was born in 1945 in a small Georgia town deeply infected with the most brutal and humiliating forms of racism. Black people dared not speak their minds to Whites or antagonize them in any way, and even the most circumspect might be forced to abase themselves to appease a White person’s cruel whim. His story is not ancient...
This week in Concord history
June 1, 2002: At a $100-a-plate gala for Concord Hospital’s cancer treatment center, some 350 donors are surprised to learn that two major contributors recently came forward. Norman and Melinda Payson of Hopkinton donated $2 million and Jim and Marianne Cook donated $1 million. “We must understand that the purpose of this cancer center is to help the people that surround us,” Jim Cook says. “The health and...
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Author Mike Morin – “If These Walls Could Talk: Celebrating 100 Years of the Red Arrow” Mike Morin, NH radio personality and author, visits Gibson’s Bookstore at 45 South Main Street in Concord on Thursday, June 1, from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. to present his book on local history, If These Walls Could Talk: Celebrating 100 Years of the Red Arrow, America’s Most Beloved Diner! Not many restaurants make it 100 years....
