NORTH MANCHESTER — On Monday, May 13, the North Manchester Historical Society will welcome Ray E. Boomhower to present his program, “Fire in the Spacecraft: Gus Grissom and the Apollo 1 Disaster.” The program will be held in the Assembly Room at Timbercrest Retirement Center, 2201 East Street, at 6:30 p.m.  It is open to …read more.

NORTH MANCHESTER — The subject of the North Manchester Historical Society’s March program will be the USS Indiana (SSN 789): its Christening and Commissioning. The program will be conducted by guest speaker Doug Lehman. Lehman is a retired U.S. Navy captain. He is a Wabash native and has been practicing as a lawyer in Wabash since …read more.

NORTH MANCHESTER — North Manchester’s Center for History has been selected by Indiana Humanities to host a Smithsonian-curated traveling exhibit called “Crossroads: Change in Rural America” as part of the Museum on Main Street program, which brings exhibitions and programs to rural communities in Indiana. The exhibition, which examines the evolving landscape of rural America, …read more.

NORTH MANCHESTER — On Monday, Jan. 14, the North Manchester Historical Society will be having its annual meeting. Following the meeting, there will be a showing of the documentary film “The Story of the Black Swamp.” The program will be held at Timbercrest Retirement Center, 2201 East St., North Manchester at 6:30 p.m. The meeting and …read more.

The North Manchester Historical Society will host author Joe Krom at 6:40 p.m. Monday, Sept. 9. A meal will precede the event by reservation. Mr. Krom will be speaking on, “William Wells on the Indiana Frontier.” Krom’s historical novel, Heart of a Warrior: The True Saga of Sweet Breeze and William Wells, covers the Indiana frontier …read more.

The North Manchester Historical Society is presenting a program by Juanita Rapp on early schools of Northern Wabash County on Monday, Aug. 12. Rapp became interested in this subject when she was part of an eight-member committee of the Wabash County Retired Teachers who conducted research that resulted in the book, One Room Schools in …read more.