Manchester, NH – The Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire is pleased to offer three distinctive pre-conference tours on Thursday, October 20 for attendees of our 2022 Black New England Conference, Where the Money Resides: An Exploration of Racialized Access & Historic Exclusion from Wealth.
Thursday, October 20 | 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM | 84 Silk Farm Rd, Concord, NH
On the first tour, participants will join members of the New England Farmer of Color Collaborative for a tour of a Black-owned farm in Concord, NH, to learn about conservation farming parties, share a meal, and engage in discussion one ligate-smart farming. Scheduled from 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM, the event includes a tour of the farm, lunch, and a discussion. This tour meets at the farm at 84 Silk Farm Rd, Concord, NH.
This tour is free. Lunch is a suggested donation of $15.
Thursday, October 20 | 2:00-3:00 PM | Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
Join us for a private viewing and conversation with museum educator Rachel Kane about two African American exhibits now on display at the Currier. The Gee’s Bend Quilts exhibit features quilts made by African American women who live in a. Remote area of Alabama. The quilts are part of an inter-generation, a community-wide tradition passed down by ancestors enslaved on local plantations since 1813. Memoirs of a Ghost Girlhood: A Black Girls Window by Alexandra Smith, visual artist, and a composition //windowed// by Liz Are create an immersive environment to explore Black identity.
This tour meets at the Currier Museum. The event is free to conference participants, but registration is required. Space is limited to 15.
Thursday, October 20 | 3:30 PM – 6:30 PM | Bus Tour and Dinner
The third tour, The Changing Faces of Manchester: Black Entrepreneurship Then and Now, focuses on Manchester’s enterprising African Americans who from the early 1800s, established businesses from barbershops to dry cleaners to the multicultural shops of today. We will also highlight some of New Hampshire’s first entrepreneurs, descendants from an African culture of traders, merchants, and craftsmen.
This tour meets at the Currier Museum. The cost is $45, which includes dinner at the Hop Knot Restaurant.
Presenters of note at the Black New England Conference include authors Richard Rothstein and Mehrsa Baradaran who will deliver the Lunchtime Keynote Address and Professor Ibram X. Kendi who will be joined in conversation at the BNEC 16th Annual Awards Dinner and Keynote Event.
The BNEC is an annual two-day gathering that brings together academics, citizen scholars, and the public to share insights and scholarly work around a particular theme. In the past, the conference has tackled issues such as the role of the Black press, and the history of the Black Church.
This year’s theme, Where the Money Resides: An Exploration of Racialized Access & Historic Exclusion from Wealth, will not only highlight the legal framework that supported barriers to wealth for non-whites (racial zoning, redlining, school segregation, and government-sanctioned racism) but will also celebrate the success stories of individuals and institutions that serve as beacons of hope for current generations.
BNEC 2022, scheduled for October 21-22 at Southern NH University in Manchester, is presented by the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire in partnership with Southern New Hampshire University and is sponsored by Delta Dental, Eastern Bank, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Novocure, New England Black in Philanthropy, Riverstone, South Church, University of New Hampshire and the Center for the Humanities at the University of New Hampshire.
For more information on the conference including schedule, conference panels topics, registration, cost, and how to become a conference sponsor please visit https://
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The Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire promotes awareness and appreciation of African American history and life to build more inclusive communities today. We work to visibly honor and share a truer, more inclusive history through exhibits, educational programs, curriculum development, and tours that can change the way our country understands human dignity when it is free of historical stereotypes.
The Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire is supported in part by an American Rescue Plan Act grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support general operating expenses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
