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A True History of Manchester
Being an Account of Its Peoples and Their Customs
Created on 2006-01-16 15:32:37 (#9273581), last updated 2006-07-22
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Basic Info| Name: | village_charm |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 01-18 |
| Location: | Manchester, Connecticut, United States |
BioThis "Alive Journal" contains what I believe to be the only complete, not fabricated, and substantial account of the town of Manchester, Conn., with also a subsidiary account of its peoples and their customs.
In order to produce this important work, I enlisted the help of a Journalist, despite my misgivings about that profession. It has been among my curses that I am not proficient at the deployment of words upon paper, so that previous attempts to capture the true and unfabricated history of Manchester by myself have been met with frustration.
In my desperation, I turned to a Man of the Press to take my store of knowledge and present it in a format amenable to divers readerships. The results are mostly satisfactory, although I again allude to my concern about the tremendous misrepresentation of Manchester that daily occurs in the popular prints. Manchester is not a city of school board meetings, felony arrests, age-restricted housing complexes, and a shopping district that is the envy of Southern New England.
Or rather, it is those things, but it is other things altogether: it holds ground in which wizards are buried; it is a collection of Raving Sectarians who hold their unspeakable assemblies behind placid walls; it is a place of burnt effigies and pigs' hearts afixed to church doors; it is a place of loneliness and regret; it is a land of Permanent November, with the frost forever nipping at our hearts; it is a land where seers and magi consult the entrails of felled deer for clues about the coming winter; it is a portal to new worlds.
It is, in short, as our alchemist-forefathers proclaimed, A City of Village Charm.
May God have mercy on us all.
- Thomas St. Clair
Mayor ex-Officio (1984-1991)
In order to produce this important work, I enlisted the help of a Journalist, despite my misgivings about that profession. It has been among my curses that I am not proficient at the deployment of words upon paper, so that previous attempts to capture the true and unfabricated history of Manchester by myself have been met with frustration.
In my desperation, I turned to a Man of the Press to take my store of knowledge and present it in a format amenable to divers readerships. The results are mostly satisfactory, although I again allude to my concern about the tremendous misrepresentation of Manchester that daily occurs in the popular prints. Manchester is not a city of school board meetings, felony arrests, age-restricted housing complexes, and a shopping district that is the envy of Southern New England.
Or rather, it is those things, but it is other things altogether: it holds ground in which wizards are buried; it is a collection of Raving Sectarians who hold their unspeakable assemblies behind placid walls; it is a place of burnt effigies and pigs' hearts afixed to church doors; it is a place of loneliness and regret; it is a land of Permanent November, with the frost forever nipping at our hearts; it is a land where seers and magi consult the entrails of felled deer for clues about the coming winter; it is a portal to new worlds.
It is, in short, as our alchemist-forefathers proclaimed, A City of Village Charm.
May God have mercy on us all.
- Thomas St. Clair
Mayor ex-Officio (1984-1991)
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