Museum Musings Book Club Featuring Carolyn Behrman and Tim Matney
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Monday, May 4, 2026 6:30pm
Location
Hower House Museum
60 Fir Hill
Details
Join us at the Hower House Museum for a presentation by local authors Carolyn Behrman and Tim Matney, on Monday May 4th at 6:30PM at the Hower House Museum!
What Remains presents a grassy field with a complicated and fraught history. What is now a suburban park where people play soccer and flag football in the City of Akron, Ohio, was once a Progressive-era county infirmary’s burial ground for people who were poor, infirm, troubled, immigrant, injured, alcoholic, elderly, or otherwise deemed “unemployable” during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through community-engaged scholarship, this book uses legal, historical, archaeological, and anthropological lenses to consider what is above and below the grass. What Remains is about memories and stories; how at times we collectively remember, forget, or even invent new pasts through the process of tracing and uncovering our own histories. It is about what is worth remembering, what is better left forgotten, and who gets to decide. - UA Press
Link to book - https://blogs.uakron.edu/uapress/product/what-remains/
Call the Hower House Museum to make your reservations: 330.972.6909. Please feel free to leave a message and we will return your call. You may also email your RSVP to Dawn Wiltheiss at dmm47@uakron.edu. (Reservations are encouraged but not required.)
Free for HHM Guild members with current membership; $8 special price for our HHM guests! $2 for Students with proper ID (If you decide to join the HHM Guild this evening, you will not have to pay the door charge.)
Limited seating, light refreshments served; free onsite parking for guests.
Hower House Museum Address:
60 Fir Hill
Akron OH 44304
www.uakron.edu/howerhousemuseum
