Manton Parks

Our mission is to preserve and enrich our public community spaces through a focused collaboration between the arts, research, technology and education.  When the Manton School was closed down by the local school district in 2018, a once vibrant school and the central gathering hub in Manton was left to exist empty on its own, without stewardship, devoid of the life it had offered the community for decades. The children of hundreds of families were left to choose being bussed to more populous areas or homeschool options. For more than half a decade, the school sat mostly empty with the exception of a small educational non-profit that roared to action to build enrichment for local children, as well as the annual Manton Apple Festival that remained the highlight of the town’s year.