“Where I live,” opens Sheds, a new book by Howard Mansfield with photographs by Joanna
Eldredge Morrisey, “we really have only one kind of building, old and new, big
and small: the shed. From woodsheds to barns, to houses, meetinghouses, and
covered bridges, they are all sheds.”
Through a fundraiser for the Hancock Town Library,
locals and visitors can tour a variety of sheds in Hancock and environs on July
23. The event begins with a brief talk by Mansfield at 11 a.m. at the library,
where the shed tourists will be provided with a copy of the book and a map to
seven sheds. The sheds will be staffed by docents (aka “shedsters”) and open
for viewing until 3 p.m. Tour participants are invited to meet up at the
Hancock Inn at 3 to enjoy a Shed Brown Ale.
The tour includes a range of structures, from a sugar
shack to a barn to a sculptor’s studio to carriage sheds – and then
some. Tickets are $25 and include the talk, the tour, and a copy of the book,
which is priced at $25. Tickets are
available at the Hancock Town Library, the Hancock Market, and the Hancock Inn.
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| Mary Seebart models the Tour de Shed t-shirt |
Tour de Shed t-shirts are also available at the library for only $10.
Like the shed tour, the book Sheds is a local production. Author Mansfield writes about
preservation, architecture, and American history from his home in Hancock.
Photographer Morrissey lives in Peterborough, where she serves as photographer
for the MacDowell Colony. The book is published by Bauhan Publishing of
Peterborough. Many thanks to Howard Mansfield, Bauhan Publishing, JSR Direct (for the t-shirts), and the Hancock Inn for their generous support of the Hancock Town Library and the Tour de Shed!
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