Celebrating the Lowly Brick, with Jim Rousmaniere
Celebrating the Lowly Brick, with Jim RousmaniereOur speaker at the August 16th, 2016, meeting of the Monadnock Rotary Club, was Jim Rousmaniere, the former Editor and President of the Keene Sentinel. Jim described the history of brick making in the Monadnock region and shared a series of his photographs of buildings in downtown Keene that are made from brick -- often of varied colors and architectural style. He is interested in helping people "see" familiar brick buildings with a more perceptive eye, sharpening our sensitivities to their beauty, history, and cultural context. Rotarians were invited to bring in an old brick from their home sites or neighborhoods. Tom Warren met this challenge, showing us a brick that was actually made at an old factory on Dublin's Charcoal Road!