Grating the Nutmeg
By Connecticut Explored Magazine
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Connecticut is a small state with big stories. GTN episodes include top-flight historians, compelling first-person stories and new voices in Connecticut history. Executive Producers Mary Donohue, Walt Woodward, and Natalie Belanger look at the people and places that have made a difference in CT history. New episodes every two weeks. A joint production of Connecticut Explored magazine and the CT State Historian Emeritus.
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185. Connecticut Industries Unite for WWII Victory: Pratt, Read & Co Gliders
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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184. The Borinqueneers: Puerto Rico’s Men of the 65th Regiment
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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183. Margaret Rudkin of Pepperidge Farm
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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Celebrate Women’s History Month with Grating the Nutmeg
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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182. Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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181. Hartford and the Great Migration, 1914-1950
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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180. Colonial Connecticut: Sugar, Slavery and Connections to the West Indies
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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179. Connecticut’s Benedict Arnold: America’s Most Hated Man
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Top 10 Most Streamed GTN Episodes of All Time
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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HOLIDAY EPISODES
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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178. Mark Twain, Spiritualism and Ghost Stories
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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177. Murder on Prospect Street
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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176. Witchcraft Uncovered: New Discoveries and Exonerations
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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175. Sleeping with the Ancestors in Connecticut
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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174. Asher Benjamin, Connecticut’s Early Builder and Architect 1773-1845
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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173. Baseball Runs in the Springer Family
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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172. Connecticut Lighthouses: Lifesaving Beacons Along the Shore
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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171. Connecticut’s Very Pink House-Roseland Cottage
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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170. Connecticut Senator George McLean Protects America’s Wild Birds
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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169. Connecticut’s 17th Regiment Volunteer Infantry at the Battle of Gettysburg
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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168. Connecticut’s Cape Verdean Community
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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167. New Lives for Old Factories: Cheshire’s Ball & Socket Arts
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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166. Connecticut at the 1964 New York World’s Fair
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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165. Connecticut's Would-Be Woodstock: The Powder Ridge Festival
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May 15, 2023 |
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164. Philip Johnson’s Glass House
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May 01, 2023 |
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163. How Connecticut Got Zoning (CTE Game Changer Series)
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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162. Picturing Puerto Rico in Conceptual Art: The Museum of the Old Colony by Pablo Delano (CTE Game Changer Series)
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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161. Carbonated Connecticut
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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160. Saving Jewish Farming History in Chesterfield
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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159. Stories from Connecticut’s Western Reserve in Ohio
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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158. Theodate Pope Survives the Sinking of the Lusitania
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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157. Journeys: Boys of the Chinese Educational Mission
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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156. The Legendary Toad’s Place Nightclub in New Haven
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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155. Celebrating Hartford’s Black Firefighters (CTE Game Changers Series)
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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154. Numbers to Names: Restoring Humanity to CT Valley Hospital Cemetery
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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153. Saving Connecticut’s World War 1 History-Here and in France (CTE Game Changers Series)
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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152. Hartford and Puerto Rico: A Conversation with Elena Rosario and Pablo Delano (CTE Game Changer Series)
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Oct 15, 2022 |
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151. Little Liberia: The Mary and Eliza Freeman Center (CTE Game Changer Series)
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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150. Common Struggle, Individual Experience: How Can Museums Talk About Mental Health? (CTE Game Changer Series)
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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149. New London and the Middle Passage (CTE Game Changer Series)
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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148. Rediscovering the Battle of Ridgefield
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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147. The Hindenburg Flies Over Connecticut
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Jul 31, 2022 |
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146. Votes (and Markers) for Women!
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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145. Activists Paul and Eslanda Robeson in Connecticut
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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144. A Visit to the Katharine Hepburn Museum at "The Kate" in Old Saybrook
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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143. The Need for Speed on the Connecticut River
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May 31, 2022 |
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142. The Institute of Living at 200
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May 16, 2022 |
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141. Saving the Merritt Parkway
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May 03, 2022 |
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140. New Hope For a Connecticut Champion
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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139. Architect Donn Barber Designs Hartford’s Early Skyscrapers
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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138. The Glorious Wide Awakes
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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137. An American Woman Artist Abroad — Mary Rogers Williams
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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136. The Lemon Law Turns 40
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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135. Zinc Gravestones - Bridgeport’s Monumental Bronze Company
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Jan 30, 2022 |
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134. "Another Name for Happiness:" The Life of Ann Plato
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Jan 15, 2022 |
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133. P.T. Barnum Builds a City
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Jan 08, 2022 |
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NEW YEAR'S FLASHBACK!: GRATING THE NUTMEG'S ALL TIME TOP FIVE EPISODES
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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132. "John Norton's Vagabond," A Victorian Christmas Story
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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131. When Contraception Was a Crime: Griswold v. CT
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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130. Whatever Happened to Nick Bellantoni?
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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129. Revolver: Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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128. A Connecticut Historian Makes History: Recovering Phyllis Wheatley's Lost Years
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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127. Telling Your Family Story with Jill Marie Snyder and Orice Jenkins
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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126. The Three Lives of Kevin Johnson
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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125. Precious Memories Captured in Hair
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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124. Lydia Sigourney, Benedict Arnold, & The Battle of Bunker Hill
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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123. Connecticut Seen: The Photography of Pablo Delano and Jack Delano
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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122. The New Connecticut Yankee
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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121. Rooted in History: Connecticut’s Trees
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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120. How Four Connecticut Inventors Helped Change The Way We Live, Think, & Act
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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119. Uncovering Connecticut’s LGBTQ History
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May 28, 2021 |
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118. The Connecticut RIver Valley Flood of 1936
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May 15, 2021 |
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117. Before 42: Ball Players of Color in Connecticut
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May 01, 2021 |
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116. Connecticut In Motion: The Story of Our Time
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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115. America’s First Public Rose Garden - Elizabeth Park
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Apr 03, 2021 |
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114. When Tombs Are Also Crime Scenes
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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113. Yale Needs Women
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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112. And So The Tomb Remained
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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111. The New Haven Black Panther Trials
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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110. Polish Jewish History, World War II and a Jewish Child’s Survival
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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109. Communicating with the Spirits: Theodate Pope Riddle
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Jan 01, 2021 |
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108. Up and Down the River
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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107. Miss Florence’s Boardinghouse and American Impressionism
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Dec 06, 2020 |
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106–Part 1 Steve Grant's Legendary 1991 Source-to-Sea Connecticut River Journey
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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106 - Part 2. Steve Grant's Legendary 1991 Source to Sea Connecticut River Journey
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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105. Connecticut’s Rosie the Riveter: Working Women in WWII
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Nov 01, 2020 |
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104. Great Traditions: The Connecticut Election Cake
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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103. Cannonballs and Skyscrapers: Keeler Tavern Museum
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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102. Archimedes, Silk Worms, Vanderbilt & The Perfect Screw
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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101. Sophie Tucker, Hartford’s Red Hot Mama
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Aug 30, 2020 |
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100. The Unlikely Legend – and History – of the Charter Oak
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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99. Connecticut’s Mount Rushmore Connection
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Aug 01, 2020 |
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98. Two Stories From World War II
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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97. Uncovering African American Women's Fight for Suffrage
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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96. Rough Justice for Nathan Hale
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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95. Beware of the Sea, for it is a Wide, Wide Love
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May 26, 2020 |
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94. Connecticut’s Jewish Farmers
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May 03, 2020 |
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93. Connecticut and the Pandemic of 1918
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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92. Connecticut’s Carnegie Libraries: Bricks, Bucks and Books
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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91. Tom Linskey's Hearth-Cooked Feast
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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90. Bob Steele, the Voice of Connecticut Radio
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Mar 01, 2020 |
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89. Why Teaching African American History in Connecticut Matters
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Feb 15, 2020 |
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88. Educated For Freedom
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Feb 01, 2020 |
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87. Time Capsule: Dirt Floor Studio and Connecticut Music
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Jan 14, 2020 |
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86. Who Paid for the American Revolution? The Founding Fortunes
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Jan 02, 2020 |
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85. Connecticut Christmas Stories & Song
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Dec 21, 2019 |
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84. War, Maps & Mystery
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Dec 16, 2019 |
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83. Exit Interview with a History Icon
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Dec 01, 2019 |
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82. Writing with Scissors: Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe and American Scrapbooks
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Nov 18, 2019 |
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81. Wilbur L. Cross, Connecticut Yankee
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Nov 01, 2019 |
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80. Novelist Ann Petry and Exploring the Family Tree
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Oct 18, 2019 |
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79. Gov. Ned Lamont, "100 Years of Fake News and Real and Fake Wars"
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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78. Uncovering African and Native American Lives in 17th - 18th Century Hartford
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Sep 02, 2019 |
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77. The Delicious History of Pizza in New Haven
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Aug 18, 2019 |
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76. The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan in Connecticut in the 1920s
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Aug 01, 2019 |
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75.For Whom The Tolls Toll. The History of Toll Roads in Connecticut.
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Jul 16, 2019 |
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74. Post WWII: 1949 Travel Diary of Beatrice Auerbach with Congresswoman Chase Woodhouse
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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73. Dept Stores, G.Fox and the Black Freedom Movement
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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72a BONUS EPISODE: Colin Calloway on Dartmouth as a School for Native Americans
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Jun 08, 2019 |
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72. "Samson Occom the Man" - Mohegan Elder Beth Regan
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Jun 01, 2019 |
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71 Eleazar Wheelock, The Great Awakening, Samson Occom & the Indian School
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May 15, 2019 |
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71 Eleazar Wheelock, The Great Awakening, Samson Occom & the Indian School
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May 07, 2019 |
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70. Anni and Josef Albers in Connecticut
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May 01, 2019 |
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69. The Breach: Voices Haunting a New England Mill Town
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Apr 15, 2019 |
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68. Fort Trumbull’s Three Lives
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Mar 29, 2019 |
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67. Louis Comfort Tiffany in New London
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Feb 27, 2019 |
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66. Sharon Cures: One Small Town of Medical Marvels
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Feb 15, 2019 |
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65. Norwalk's Village Creek Ahead of Its Time
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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64. Best Winter History Reads
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Jan 13, 2019 |
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63. Why the Constitution of 1818 Matters Today
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Dec 18, 2018 |
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62. Three Centuries of Christmas at the Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum
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Dec 03, 2018 |
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61. Feasts, Facts & Fictions : Cooking REAL New England Holiday Foods
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Nov 17, 2018 |
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60. SPECIAL CPTV Audio Documentary: BARNUM'S CONNECTICUT
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Nov 02, 2018 |
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59. Constitution of 1818 Part 4: Milestone in Church State Relations?
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Oct 15, 2018 |
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58. Keeping it Clean in World War I
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Oct 01, 2018 |
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57. Breaking Golf’s Color Line in Hartford
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Sep 15, 2018 |
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56. Constitution of 1818 Part 3: The Constitutional Debates
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Aug 31, 2018 |
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55. Constitution of 1818 Part 2: The Collapse of Connecticut Federalists’ Dominance
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Aug 29, 2018 |
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54. The Long Journeys Home Part 1 - Henry 'Opukaha'ia
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Aug 01, 2018 |
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54. The Long Journeys Home Part 2 – Albert Afraid of Hawk
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Aug 01, 2018 |
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53. Hopes and Expectations: Creation of a Black Middle Class in Hartford
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Jul 16, 2018 |
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52. Mark Twain’s Native American Problem
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Jul 01, 2018 |
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51. Greater Hartford's West Indian Diaspora
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Jun 16, 2018 |
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50. A Seaside Village in the Big City: Morris Cove
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May 31, 2018 |
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49. The Professor’s Secret Life
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May 15, 2018 |
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48. Mid-century Modern in Connecticut
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May 01, 2018 |
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47. How We Learned, Loved, & Mourned: A Field Trip
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Apr 15, 2018 |
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46. Staying on the Land: Five Generations of Connecticut Pioneers
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Apr 02, 2018 |
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45. Trouble in the Land of Steady Habits
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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44. The Amazing Story Behind America's First Cookbook
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Feb 20, 2018 |
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43. The Challenge of Fair Housing in CT's Suburbs
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Jan 21, 2018 |
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42. Treasures of the Watkinson
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Jan 02, 2018 |
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41. HAVE ARCHAEOLOGISTS FOUND CONNECTICUT'S JAMESTOWN?
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Nov 23, 2017 |
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40. Wicked Hartford!
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Nov 10, 2017 |
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39 Witch-Hunting in Connecticut Part 1 - The European Prelude
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Oct 26, 2017 |
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39 Witch-Hunting in Connecticut Part 2 The Connecticut Trials
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Oct 26, 2017 |
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39. Witch-Hunting in Connecticut Part 3 – Interview with Richard Ross, BEFORE SALEM
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Oct 26, 2017 |
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38. Talkin’ About the 9/11 Generation
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Oct 04, 2017 |
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37. Aboard the First Yacht that Sailed the Connecticut River . . . in 1614
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Sep 18, 2017 |
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36. Fidelia Bridges's Connection to Old Lyme & a Ride on the Air Line Trail
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Aug 30, 2017 |
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35. Bagel Beach and Jewish Vacationers at the CT Shore
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Aug 16, 2017 |
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34. Caroline Ferriday Inspires a Bestseller
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Jul 28, 2017 |
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33. WORLD WAR I REENACTORS TELL ALL
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Jul 11, 2017 |
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32. Hops, Beer and Hartford’s Union Brewery Strike
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Jun 27, 2017 |
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31. The NEW Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
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Jun 07, 2017 |
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30. Part 3 P T BARNUM'S THE ART OF MONEY GETTING
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May 27, 2017 |
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30 Part 2. THE 1st TEN RULES FOR MAKING MONEY, by P T BARNUM
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May 12, 2017 |
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30. P T BARNUM AND THE ART OF MONEY-GETTING
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May 08, 2017 |
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29. Art, Agency, Legacy: 30 Years of The Amistad Center for Art & Culture
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Apr 24, 2017 |
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28. Connecticut in WWI: Letters from the Front
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Apr 04, 2017 |
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27. Sam Colt Mines the West
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Mar 22, 2017 |
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26. Catharine Beecher Educates the West
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Mar 08, 2017 |
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25. On to Mexico! The Connecticut National Guard
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Feb 24, 2017 |
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24. THE GERMAN INVASION OF CONNECTICUT IN WORLD WAR I
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Feb 02, 2017 |
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23. The Great American Road Trip with New Haven Museum
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Jan 12, 2017 |
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22. The Smithsonian's Eric Hintz: HARTFORD AS A PLACE OF INVENTION
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Dec 27, 2016 |
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21 Holiday Episode 2: A CONNECTICUT CHRISTMAS from TWAIN & STOWE
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Nov 30, 2016 |
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20. HOLIDAY EPISODE 1 - SOUP AND STORIES
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Nov 26, 2016 |
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19. CONNECTICUT INNOVATES
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Nov 16, 2016 |
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18. .GOVERNOR JOHN DEMPSEY – SON OF CAHIR (Audio & VIDEO)
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Nov 02, 2016 |
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17. A PIRATE'S TALE & VISIT TO NEWGATE PRISON
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Oct 14, 2016 |
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16 DRINKING IN HISTORY AT THE NOAH WEBSTER HOUSE
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Oct 04, 2016 |
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15. WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT? - LAW AND ORDER EDITION
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Sep 15, 2016 |
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14. BRADLEY FIELD AND EUGENE BRADLEY
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Sep 06, 2016 |
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13. DISCOVERY! CONNECTICUT'S MOST IMPORTANT DIG EVER!
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Aug 23, 2016 |
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12. GREAT FINDS! – INSIDE AND OUT
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Aug 02, 2016 |
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11. WALLACE NUTTING AND THE WEBB DEANE STEVENS MUSEUM
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Jul 13, 2016 |
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10. POETRY AND PATRIOTS IN STONINGTON & SHACK ATTACK!
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Jun 27, 2016 |
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9. LYMAN ORCHARDS TURNS 275 AND WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT–SUMMER EDITION
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Jun 07, 2016 |
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8. A SERVANT SHOWS US THE TWAIN HOME & 10/40 AT FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM
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May 22, 2016 |
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7. A COMMUNIST'S ARREST IN 1950'S NEW HAVEN
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Apr 19, 2016 |
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7E (Extended Version) A COMMUNIST'S ARREST IN 1950'S NEW HAVEN
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Apr 19, 2016 |
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6. IRISH EYES, AND VOTING AND PROTESTING
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Mar 13, 2016 |
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5. WHAT MAKES CONNECTICUT CONNECTICUT
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Mar 03, 2016 |
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4: CONNECTICUT CLOCKS AND AMERICAN WORDS
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Feb 10, 2016 |
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3: SPEED DATE A HISTORY CONFERENCE / MUSICAL CLUB OF HARTFORD
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Jan 14, 2016 |
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2: ICONIC BRANDS / AUDOBON BIRD CALL / TOASTER?
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Dec 16, 2015 |
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1: WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT / LEBANON'S AMAZING BENEFACTOR
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Nov 22, 2015 |