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How Four Connecticut Inventors Helped Change The Way We Live, Think, & Act
Season 2 Episode 120
State Historian Walt Woodward talks with award-winning author and materials scientists Ainissa Ramirez about her award-winning and highly acclaimed …
4 years, 11 months ago
Uncovering Connecticut's LGBTQ History
Season 2 Episode 119
Lives of the state's LGBTQ citizens have moved from being hidden and solitary to claiming visible, powerful, valuable, and contributing places in s…
4 years, 11 months ago
The Connecticut River Valley Flood of 1936
Season 2 Episode 118
In this episode, Josh Shanley – firefighter, paramedic, and Emergency Management Director for Northampton, Massachusetts, talks about the Great…
5 years ago
Before 42: Ball Players of Color in Connecticut
Season 2 Episode 117
Connecticut Historical Society's Natalie Belanger talks with labor historian Steve Thornton of The Shoeleather History Project about Black baseball …
5 years ago
Connecticut in Motion: The Story of Our Time
Season 2 Episode 116
No one knows more about transportation in Connecticut than historian, civil engineer, and highway and transportation planner Richard DeLuca. In this …
5 years, 1 month ago
America's First Public Rose Garden-Elizabeth Park
Season 2 Episode 115
Visitors have been enchanted by the thousands of soft and fragrant rose petals in Elizabeth Park's Rose Garden since it opened in 1904. Climbing ros…
5 years, 1 month ago
When Tombs Become Crime Scenes
Season 2 Episode 114
Sometimes tombs become crime scenes. State Archaeologist Emeritus Nick Bellantoni talks with Walt Woodward about two such cases in which he was call…
5 years, 2 months ago
Yale Needs Women
Season 2 Episode 113
In 1969, women were allowed entry to undergraduate study at Yale for the first time. Their experience was not the same as their male peers enjoyed. …
5 years, 2 months ago
And So The Tomb Remained
Season 2 Episode 112
What secrets about the past can an ancient tomb reveal? The answers, as State Archaeologist emeritus Nick Bellantoni explains, are many, surprising,…
5 years, 3 months ago
The New Haven Black Panther Trials
Season 2 Episode 111
Fifty years ago, Ericka Huggins and Bobby Seale of the Black Panthers were on trial for their lives in New Haven. In this episode, Natalie Belanger …
5 years, 3 months ago