BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Find Local//findlocal.community//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:f4004ff1-188c-4330-bb61-5e34027e8e9c@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20261026T050943Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261110T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261110T203000 SUMMARY:Howard Mansfield presents Invisible Monuments DESCRIPTION:Howard Mansfield returns to Gibson's Bookstore with his lates t book\, Invisible Monuments: Tribute\, Memory\, and the Summoning of th e Past! ABOUT THE BOOK We don’t look at most of the monuments and memori als around us. They disappear from view. Think of all the mute memorials you may pass in a week that are unseen\, a blurred background to your d aily commute: the green-mottled great man on his horse\, hosting only pi geons\; the curious obelisk looking like a stunted Washington Monument\; the historical marker crowded with so many words it looks like a warnin g label written by a cadre of liability lawyers. So much narrative left out in the weather\, so much storytelling that has lost its way. Any mon ument that we stand before asks something of us. Think of monuments as t he first part of a call and response\, as in music\, as in worship. We b ring our sense of history to the present\, otherwise the granite/marble/ limestone/bronze before us will be mute. A few monuments aren’t invisibl e. They speak to us\, like the Vietnam Veterans Memorial\, and in anothe r era\, the Cenotaph in London that brought forth the strong emotional r esponse after World War I. Each chapter explores the invisibility of mon uments: The forced invisibility of the African Burial Grounds in Manhatt an and Portsmouth\, New Hampshire\, which have been rediscovered. These graveyards were destroyed in keeping with America’s “mortuary apartheid. ” The sad fate of the Irish immigrants building America’s railroads in t he nineteenth century\, many killed on the job to be buried in unmarked graves. A grieving family’s memorial to a son lost in World War II\, bui lt stone by stone on the family’s farm\, which still draws thousands to an outdoor “Cathedral of the Pines.” A Ferris wheel\, stopped forever af ter a tragic accident\, abandoned to rust\, which becomes a private monu ment for a five-year-old boy. A celebrated\, much-pictured monument for the Battle of Bunker Hill that doesn’t have the emotional charge and sig nificance it once held. An unusual monument\, a tribute to the future—a clock being built deep in a mountain\, a clock that is meant to run for 10\,000 years. And lastly\, a monument hiding on museum walls. The great landscape painters of the nineteenth century\, sometimes called the Hud son River School\, weren’t out to just paint pretty pictures. They were chasing a moment of insight when they would see this new nation clearly. Their paintings taught Americans how to see wilderness and laid the bou nds for many of our national parks. The goal with these stories is simil ar to the landscape painters: the author refreshes our sight so we look anew at the monuments around us\, and so we can engage in a call and res ponse with our history. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Howard Mansfield sifts through the commonplace and the forgotten to discover stories that tell us about ourselves and our place in the world. He writes about history\, archite cture\, and preservation. He is the author of a dozen books\, including The Bones of the Earth\, The Same Ax Twice\, Chasing Eden\, Dwelling in Possibility: Searching for the Soul of Shelter\, and In the Memory House which The New York Times called “a wise and beautiful book.” In Mansfie ld’s most recent book\, I Will Tell No War Stories: What Our Fathers Lef t Unsaid About World War II\, he “breaks through the wall of silence som e war veterans maintain\,” said Booklist. “The result is an impeccably r esearched and beautifully written account of the stories his father woul dn’t tell. Readers will find themselves in heated sheepskin flight suits and oxygen masks\, high in the sky over enemy territory…. A vital and m oving history of all that is left unsaid in the aftermath of war and how that affects the next generation.” Mansfield has been honored by the N. H. Humanities Council as “a gem in our granite landscape” and this fall he will receive the Sarah Josepha Hale Award. He has won a Gold Medal fo r Commentary for City and Regional Magazines\, a silver medal from the I ndependent Publisher Book Awards\, and was a City and Regional Magazine Feature Story Finalist. He received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Franklin Pierce University. He has served as a writer and consulta nt for museums\, written and performed a stage show with composer Ben Co sgrove that was the subject of an Emmy Award-winning film\, and has co-w ritten a forthcoming documentary film. “Howard Mansfield has never writt en an uninteresting or dull sentence\,” said the writer and critic Guy D avenport. “All of his books are emotionally and intellectually nourishin g. He is something like a cultural psychologist along with being a first -class cultural historian.”\n\nTickets: http://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/ form/gibson-s-event-rsvp\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/f4004ff1-1 88c-4330-bb61-5e34027e8e9c LOCATION:Gibson's Bookstore\, 45 S Main St\, Concord\, NH 03301 URL:https://findlocal.community/event/f4004ff1-188c-4330-bb61-5e34027e8e9 c STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR