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:...
Sep 15, 2021
History has often been described as the present having a conversation with the past. Meet Kevin Johnson, who makes those conversations both real and personal: as a Technical Assistant in the History and Genealogy unit of the Connecticut State Library in Hartford; as William Webb, a Civil War volunteer in the...