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Tom Linsky's Hearth -Cooked Feast
Season 2 Episode 91
Twice a year, restoration carpenter Tom Linsky and his wife Sally Irons host a heart-cooked colonial feast in their historic 18th century Portland h…
6 years, 1 month ago
Bob Steele, the Voice of Connecticut Radio
Season 2 Episode 90
Bob Steele, the Voice of Connecticut Radio
For more than sixty years, Bob Steele was the voice of Southern New England, entertaining listeners of …
6 years, 2 months ago
Why Teaching African American History in Connecticut Matters
Season 2 Episode 89
CT Explored publisher Elizabeth Normen sits down with Dr. Benjamin Foster and Connecticut State Representative Bobby Gibson to talk about their effo…
6 years, 3 months ago
Educated for Freedom
Episode 88
Anna Mae Duane has written an amazing new book about James McCune Smith and Henry Garnet, two African American boys who met as young stude…
6 years, 3 months ago
Time Capsule: Dirt Floor Studio and Connecticut Music
Season 2 Episode 87
In the Winter 2019 issue of Connecticut Explored, Museum of Connecticut History curator Dave Corrigan tackles the obsolescence of everyday objects s…
6 years, 4 months ago
Who Paid for the American Revolution? THE FOUNDING FORTUNES
Episode 86
In our first episode for 2020, state historian Walt Woodward interviews author and historian Tom Shachtman talks about his just released book, The F…
6 years, 4 months ago
Connecticut Christmas Stories and Song
Episode 85
For your holiday enjoyment, State Historian Walt Woodward has gathered together three historic Connecticut Christmas stories, and a Christm…
6 years, 4 months ago
War, Maps & Mystery
Season 2 Episode 84
Maps tell stories. In this episode of Grating the Nutmeg, Natalie Belanger and Ben Gammell of the CT Historical Society uncover the little-known sto…
6 years, 4 months ago
Interview with a History Icon.
Episode 83
For more than a generation, Kendall F. Wiggin has been one of the most influential champions of history issues and institutions in Connecticut.…
6 years, 5 months ago
Writing with Scissors: Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe and American Scrapbooks
Season 2 Episode 82
How did Mark Twain aka Samuel Clemons use scrapbooks to fight unscrupulous publishers who reprinted his work
without paying him? Why did celebrities…
6 years, 5 months ago