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140. New Hope For a Connecticut Champion
Episode 139
For over 2000 years, the American chestnut was the tallest, largest, and most omnipresent tree in all Connecticut. It's a tree for which a hundred hi…
4 years, 1 month ago
Architect Donn Barber Designs Hartford's Early Skyscrapers
Season 2 Episode 139
In this episode, architectural historian Mary Donohue and podcast engineer Patrick O'Sullivan explore the Hartford work of early twentieth century ar…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Glorious Wide Awakes
Season 2 Episode 138
Spurred by Abraham Lincoln's campaign stop in Hartford in March 1860, the Wide Awake movement spread from Connecticut throughout the North like wildf…
4 years, 2 months ago
An American Woman Artist Abroad — Mary Rogers Williams
Season 2 Episode 137
March is Women's History Month and in this episode publisher Elizabeth Normen talks with author Eve Kahn about her 2019 book, Forever Seeing New Bea…
4 years, 2 months ago
The Lemon Law Turns 40
Episode 136
Forty years ago, a freshman legislator in the Connecticut General Assembly wrote and engineered passage of one of the most important pieces of consum…
4 years, 3 months ago
Zinc Gravestones - Bridgeport's Monumental Bronze Company
Season 2 Episode 135
As we all ease into 2022, we want to thank our listeners for supporting Grating the Nutmeg! We've just had our 6th birthday and hit over 100,000 down…
4 years, 3 months ago
"Another Name for Happiness:" The Life of Ann Plato
Season 2 Episode 134
In this episode, Connecticut Historical Society's Natalie Belanger, frequent contributor to Grating the Nutmeg, talks with Antoinette Brim-Bell, Pro…
4 years, 4 months ago
P.T. Barnum Builds a City
Season 2 Episode 133
Is there a sucker born every minute? I don't have the answer to that but it is attributed to one of Connecticut's most famous residents, circus show…
4 years, 4 months ago
"John Norton's Vagabond," A Victorian Christmas Story
Episode 132
In the spirit of the season, we're pleased to present a Victorian era Christmas story, written by the celebrated 19th century author from Guilford, …
4 years, 4 months ago
When Contraception Was a Crime: Griswold v. CT
Season 2 Episode 131
Natalie Belanger of the Connecticut Historical Society is joined by historian Barbara Sicherman, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emerita at Trini…
4 years, 5 months ago