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Colonial Connecticut: Sugar, Slavery and Connections to the West Indies
Season 3 Episode 180
Although Connecticut sometimes seems like such a small, isolated place on the map, it was connected to the far-flung, complex, cosmopolitan Britis…
2 years, 3 months ago
Connecticut's Benedict Arnold: America's Most Hated Man
Season 3 Episode 179
179. Connecticut's Benedict Arnold: America's Most Hated Man
This is our first new episode for 2024 and we've got some big news! Thanks to you-our…
2 years, 4 months ago
Mark Twain, Spiritualism and Ghost Stories
Season 3 Episode 178
Did you ever think the universe was trying to tell you something? I just finished reading Anderson Cooper's book on the Vanderbilt family. In it…
2 years, 5 months ago
Murder on Prospect Street
Season 3 Episode 177
In this episode of Grating the Nutmeg, Natalie Belanger sits down with acclaimed crime writer M. William Phelps to get to the bottom of a notorious …
2 years, 6 months ago
Witchcraft Uncovered: New Discoveries and Exonerations
Season 3 Episode 176
Witchcraft accusations began in Connecticut in May, 1647, with the trial and execution of Alice Young of Windsor, 45 years before the better-known w…
2 years, 6 months ago
Sleeping with the Ancestors in Connecticut
Season 3 Episode 175
Podcast host and historic preservationist Mary Donohue started following a project on Facebook four or five years ago. It was based on a very simple…
2 years, 7 months ago
Asher Benjamin, Connecticut's Early Builder and Architect 1773-1845
Season 3 Episode 174
From the rural backwater of Hartland, Connecticut in 1773, Asher Benjamin would rise to become one of the most important figures of early Americ…
2 years, 7 months ago
Baseball Runs in the Springer Family
Season 3 Episode 173
This fall the Connecticut Museum is hosting the Smithsonian traveling exhibition ¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues / En los barrios y las…
2 years, 8 months ago
Connecticut Lighthouses: Lifesaving Beacons Along the Shore
Season 3 Episode 172
In any gift shop in New England, you'll probably find lighthouses pictured on tea towels and tee shirts and in snow globes. Lighthouses are fondly t…
2 years, 8 months ago
Connecticut's Very Pink House-Roseland Cottage
Season 3 Episode 171
It's the summer of Barbie. Barbiecore, an homage to the stylish doll, is everywhere in fashion and home furnishings. It's time to think pink!
So…
2 years, 9 months ago