2023 is Manchester’s Bicentennial, and events and programs will be going on through the year to celebrate. The Cheney Family Fund will contribute to a commemorative public mural being designed to install at the culvert/falls of Center Springs Park depicting … read more
Family News
We want to know about the important events in your family to add to the Family Tree—births, weddings, deaths. And we want to know about members’ accomplishments—from publishing milestones and art exhibits to winning a marathon, awards for volunteering or establishing a business.
For instance, our cousin Phebe Thorne’s new memoir and cookbook The Uplands: A Great Camp in the Adirondacks explores life in Keene Valley, NY, enjoyed by many members of the Cheney family. What’s your news?
Please send details to Carol Cheney at info@cheneyancestry.org
The Cheney Family Fund
The Cheney Family Fund annually makes gifts to seven different organizations in Manchester and Hartford. The Connecticut Historical Society devoted a full page in a recent magazine Making History to the Cheney Cemetery Association, which manages the fund with the … read more
Cheney—One of a Kind
On display at your local dealer, the Reo Flying Cloud of the Month sporting bespoke Cheney Brothers upholstery fabric (in the ‘20s and ‘30s).
Peter Heller, a Star Cheney Author
Peter Heller is a longtime contributor to NPR, and a former contributing editor at Outside Magazine, Men’s Journal, and National Geographic Adventure. He is an award winning adventure writer and the author of four books of literary nonfiction. He lives … read more