Nov 16, 2020
In part two oof Steve Grant's
Legendary 1991 Source-to-Sea journey on the Connecticut River,
we'll talk about Some of the Connecticut RIver's endangered
species, the issues that affected the river's health then and now,
the celebrations at the end of the voyage, and what the journey
means to Grant some thirty years...
Nov 1, 2020
In this episode, Natalie Belanger of the Connecticut Historical Society takes a look at the iconic Rosie the Riveter character. To get the scoop on what it was like to be a real-life "Rosie" in CT during WWII, she speaks to Gretchen Caulfield, President of the American Rosie the Riveter Association. (
Oct 15, 2020
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With elections leaving so many people with a bitter taste in their mouths, we're celebrating one of Connecticut's oldest – and for centuries best known – traditions; the Connecticut Election cake. In this conversation with Allie Kyff of the Connecticut...
Oct 1, 2020
Owned by the same family for its first 200 years then purchased by star architect Cass Gilbert in 1907 for his summer home, the Keeler Tavern was there when the American Revolution’s Battle of Ridgefield happened and it has a cannonball embedded in the façade to prove it. New York City architect Cass Gilbert,...
Sep 17, 2020
In this podcast from the memoir of
Ellsworth S Grant, one of the state's great historians, Walt
Woodward tells us about the invention of the world's best fastening
device. It's a story that begins with Archimedes, and that came to
fruition because of silk worms, Cornelius Vanderbilt, an
entrepreneur named Dimoch, and an...