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Pursuing Happiness: New Horizons Village
Season 4 Episode 230
In 1955, a group of disabled young adults living at New Britain Memorial Hospital signed a letter declaring their intention to seek out "adventureso…
2 hours ago
229. Irish Immigration in Art from the Fairfield Great Hunger Museum at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum
Season 4 Episode 229
Famine Irish, lace-curtain Irish, shanty Irish: the Irish Diaspora has shaped Connecticut's European immigrant history from the 1840s. Traces of Ir…
2 weeks ago
Sports Heaven: The Birth of ESPN in Bristol, Connecticut
Season 4 Episode 228
If you are driving in Bristol, Connecticut-maybe you're going to Lake Compounce Amusement Park - and suddenly you spy a cluster of huge satellite di…
1 month ago
227. Pioneering Woman Sculptor Evelyn Beatrice Longman
Season 4 Episode 227
I've got a story about an artist that I've been obsessed with for years. In this episode, Patricia Hoerth Batchelder talks about her new biography o…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
226. Abby (and Julia) Smith and Their Cows
Season 4 Episode 226
Last year, in Episode 217, listeners were introduced to Hannah Smith. Born in 1767, Hannah was the matriarch of the non-conformist Smith Family of…
2 months ago
225. On Trial: Alfred Marder and Catherine Roraback - A Communist's Arrest in 1950's McCarthy-era New Haven (10th Anniversary Encore Release)
Season 4 Episode 225
Grating the Nutmeg is 10 years old! In celebration of our 10th anniversary, we are bringing you a remastered and re-edited edition of an episode w…
3 months ago
Scholar, Activist, Trailblazer: The Enduring Legacy of Dr. Lorenzo Greene
Season 4 Episode 224
Connecticut is a small state that has had a huge national impact. In this episode, we celebrate someone that we are proud to say was born in Connect…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
The 'Great Temperance Times' in Nineteenth-Century Black Connecticut
Season 4 Episode 223
At first glance, alcohol and racial equality might seem unrelated—but for Black activists, the temperance movement was a powerful vehicle for soci…
4 months ago
Cabbage Patch Kids and West Hartford's Toymaker Coleco
Season 4 Episode 222
During this holiday season, it seems like the perfect time to bring you the story of one of the bestselling toys ever - Cabbage Patch Kids! Inducted…
5 months, 1 week ago
New Haven's Lt. Augusto Rodríguez, First Civil War Soldier from Puerto Rico
Season 4 Episode 221
More than twenty thousand Hispanic Americans served in the Civil War. When Cuban-born Loreta Velázquez's husband would not allow her to join him o…
6 months ago