Podcast Episodes

The Mattatuck Museum: Waterbury and Summer Leisure

Season 4 Episode 210

In this episode, host Mary Donohue visits the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, a place that includes stellar architecture, art by some of the most renowned artists of the nineteenth and twentieth ce…

Published on 5 months ago

Mary Hall and the Good Will Club

Season 4 Episode 209

In this episode, Natalie Belanger of the CT Museum of Culture and History tells the story of the Good Will Club, the forerunner of the youth club movement that got its start in Hartford. But the s…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Saving Connecticut's Mid-Century Modern Homes

Season 4 Episode 208

We're celebrating May, Historic Preservation Month, with an episode on the Modern houses of the 1950s and 1960s. 

Could you live in a glass house? New Canaan, Connecticut's Mid-Century Modern ho…

Published on 6 months ago

Book and Dagger: Yale Professors Become Successful WWII Spies

Season 4 Episode 207

In her new book, Book and Dagger, How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of the World, Dr. Elyse Graham tells the story of academics, like Yale literature professor Joseph Curtis, w…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Hartford's Rural Cemetery: Cedar Hill

Season 4 Episode 206

Last year in episode 186, we talked about Grove Street Cemetery's pioneering role as the first planned cemetery in the country. The design of Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven in the 1790s used s…

Published on 7 months ago

Coffee — A Connecticut Story

Season 4 Episode 205

Coffee is more than a hot drink or a boost of caffeine. For Connecticans, it's hundreds of years of history. It has fueled new ideas, social reform, and workers' rights. It is comfort in wartime and…

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Artistry, Charm, and Whimsy: Connecticut's Carousel Museum

Season 4 Episode 204

Carousels are marvels of brightly painted animals, mechanical excellence, music and lights.  Located in a historic mill building in Bristol, the Carousel Museum houses well over 100 antique wooden c…

Published on 8 months ago

Amistad Retold: New Haven and the 1839 Amistad Revolt

Season 4 Episode 203

The New Haven Museum staff and their community partners have reinterpreted the Amistad story in an exhibition that takes a new angle on the familiar story of the Amistad.

The 1839 Amistad Revolt w…

Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago

Miss Crandall's School for Black Women

Season 4 Episode 202

After a campaign initiated by schoolchildren, Prudence Crandall was designated the Connecticut State Heroine by the Connecticut General Assembly on Oct. 1, 1995. You may not know Connecticut has a…

Published on 9 months ago

The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir with Griffin Dunne

Season 4 Episode 201

In this episode, Host Mary Donohue talks to Griffin Dunne, actor, producer and director and now New York Times best-selling author about his family memoir The Friday Afternoon Club. His Hartford to …

Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago