Aug 1, 2023
Connecticut Senator George P. McLean’s crowning achievement was overseeing passage of one of the country’s first and most important wildlife conservation laws, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918. The MBTA, which is still in effect today, has saved billions of birds from senseless killing and likely prevented the...
Jun 15, 2022
Painting by Everett Raymond Kinstler, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
Join Walt Woodward on a visit to the Katharine Hepburn Museum at "the Kate" in Old Saybrook. His interview with Executive Director Brett Eliott and Director of Community Relations Robin Andreoli about this gem of a museum for America's...
Apr 15, 2022
For over 2000 years, the American chestnut was the tallest, largest, and most omnipresent tree in all Connecticut. It’s a tree for which a hundred hills, countless streets, and at least one Connecticut town were named, a tree whose nuts we sing about on the holidays, and a tree which helped frame our houses, shape...
NEW YEAR'S FLASHBACK!: GRATING THE NUTMEG'S ALL TIME TOP FIVE EPISODES
Dec 31, 2021
Thanks to you, last year Grating
the Nutmeg passed it's 100,000th download. We're proud to be a
fixture of so many Connectican's playlists, and proud to be among
the top 20% of all podcasts made in terms of
listenership.
To celebrate, we thought we'd have a New Year's flashback, and link back to our five all time most...
Oct 15, 2021
A Connecticut Historian Makes History: Recovering Phyllis Wheatley’s Lost Years
UCONN legal historian Cornelia Hughes Dayton was searching through Massachusetts Court cases from the 1700s, working on a project involving mental disabilities in early America, when she came upon a find that was itself history-making:...