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Three Centuries of Christmas at the Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum
Season 2 Episode 62
Charles Lyle, executive director of the Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum in Wethersfield, whets your appetite for a visit to the Webb, Stevens, and Deane…
7 years, 5 months ago
Feasts, Facts, & Fictions: Cooking REAL New England Holiday Foods
Season 2 Episode 61
Food historians Keith Staveley and Kathleen Fitzgerald join state historian Walt Woodward at his dinner table in Columbia for a talk about traditiona…
7 years, 5 months ago
THE P T BARNUM YOU NEVER KNEW
Season 2 Episode 60
THE P T BARNUM YOU NEVER KNEW
In this special Connecticut Public Television audio documentary, we tell the story almost no one knows about the othe…
7 years, 6 months ago
Constitution of 1818—Milestone in Church State Relations?
Season 2 Episode 59
This episode, the fourth in our 6-part series commemorating the Constitution of 1818, explores one of the main accomplishments of the state's first …
7 years, 7 months ago
Keeping it Clean in World War I
Season 2 Episode 58
In the 1910s, a group of Connecticut reformers formed a society aimed at solving a growing crisis – the spread of venereal diseases. The United…
7 years, 7 months ago
Breaking Golf's Color Line in Hartford
Season 2 Episode 57
Hartford native Gerry Peterson has played golf with President Barack Obama and was inducted into the Black Golf Hall of Fame in 2015. Golf has alway…
7 years, 8 months ago
Constitution of 1818 Part 3: The Constitutional Debates
Season 2 Episode 56
Attorney Wesley Horton, president of the Connecticut Supreme Court Historical Society, outlines the main issues of debate as state delegates finally…
7 years, 8 months ago
Constitution of 1818 Part 2: The Collapse of Connecticut Federalists' Dominance
Season 2 Episode 55
Dr. Richard Buel Jr., Professor Emeritus, Wesleyan University, describes the political climate that led to the Constitution of 1818 and how we mus…
7 years, 8 months ago
The Long Journeys Home Part 1 - Henry 'Opukaha'ia
Season 2 Episode 54
Part 1 - Henry 'Opukaha'ia
Two young native men.
Henry Opukaha'ia, a native of Hawaii, who died in Cornwall, CT in 1818. Albert Afraid of Hawk, a La…
7 years, 9 months ago
The Long Journeys Home Part 2 – Albert Afraid of Hawk
Season 2 Episode 54
PART TWO: ALBERT AFRAID OF HAWK
Two young men.
Henry Opukaha'ia, a native of Hawaii, who died in Cornwall, CT in 1818. Albert Afraid of Hawk, a Lak…
7 years, 9 months ago