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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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My Sporting Hero: Coll Donaldson on Tom Brady
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Falkirk captain Coll Donaldson eulogises Gridiron great who caught a break and went on to win record seven Super Bowls. This podcast is part of a new, digital version of Nutmeg that will give you more of the Nutmeg stories you love, straight to your email inbox. You’ll get topical columns from leading players and journalists, The Nutmeg Mysteries –…
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196. Connecticut Body Snatchers: Merchandising the Dead in the 19th Century
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Have you got your Halloween costume ready? Been on any graveyard tours this month? Well, this story for you! I’d never thought of body snatching as having anything to do with Connecticut but as this episode proves, the disappearance of a young women’s body lead to a New Haven riot. I’ll get the details from Richard Ross author of the new book Ameri…
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My Sporting Hero: Kevin Harper on Michael Jordan
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Ex-Hibs winger Kevin Harper found black role model in the maestro of the basketball court. This podcast is part of a new, digital version of Nutmeg that will give you more of the Nutmeg stories you love, straight to your email inbox. You’ll get topical columns from leading players and journalists, The Nutmeg Mysteries – uncovering strange episodes …
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My Sporting Hero: Pat Nevin on Pele
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Former Chelsea wing star Pat Nevin found that meeting your childhood idol can be a wonderful experience. This podcast is part of a new, digital version of Nutmeg that will give you more of the Nutmeg stories you love, straight to your email inbox. You’ll get topical columns from leading players and journalists, The Nutmeg Mysteries – uncovering str…
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My Sporting Hero: Aiden McGeady on Diego Maradona
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Gifted former Celtic winger Aiden McGeady explains why late Argentinian genius’ bad boy edge made him irresistible. This podcast is part of a new, digital version of Nutmeg that will give you more of the Nutmeg stories you love, straight to your email inbox. You’ll get topical columns from leading players and journalists, The Nutmeg Mysteries – unc…
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195. George Griffin: Revealing the Life and Likeness of Mark Twain’s Butler
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Most people know something about Mark Twain, the pen name of Samuel Clemens. After all, he wrote his most famous books while living in Hartford, Connecticut. His 25-room house on Farmington Avenue cost over $40,000 in 1874 dollars. Raised as a child in Missouri, he became world famous for his wit and humor both in print and on stage. But what if th…
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My Sporting Hero: John Hughes on Pep Guardiola
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Purist Yogi pays homage to football’s Spanish mastermind This podcast is part of a new, digital version of Nutmeg that will give you more of the Nutmeg stories you love, straight to your email inbox. You’ll get topical columns from leading players and journalists, The Nutmeg Mysteries – uncovering strange episodes in our game’s past, fascinating ru…
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My Sporting Hero: Ian Cathro on Kobe Bryant
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Estoril manager argues that late basketball superstar’s winning mentality was second to none. This podcast is part of a new, digital version of Nutmeg that will give you more of the Nutmeg stories you love, straight to your email inbox. You’ll get topical columns from leading players and journalists, The Nutmeg Mysteries – uncovering strange episod…
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194. Revolutionary War Hero Lafayette Makes a Triumphal Return Tour
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In this episode, you'll hear about the remarkable life and legacy of the man that Lin-Manuel Miranda called "America's favorite fighting Frenchman," the Marquis de Lafayette. This month marks the 200th anniversary of Lafayette's visit to Connecticut, part of his so-called "Farewell Tour" of America in 1824. Natalie Belanger of the Connecticut Museu…
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My Sporting Hero: Kyle Vassell on Muhammad Ali
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Kilmarnock captain explains how the greatest of all time inspired him to never give up This podcast is part of a new, digital version of Nutmeg that will give you more of the Nutmeg stories you love, straight to your email inbox. You’ll get topical columns from leading players and journalists, The Nutmeg Mysteries – uncovering strange episodes in o…
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My Sporting Hero: Billy Stark on Jim Baxter and Bobby Lennox
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The former Aberdeen and Celtic midfielder selects one all-time great from either side of the Old Firm This podcast is part of a new, digital version of Nutmeg that will give you more of the Nutmeg stories you love, straight to your email inbox. You’ll get topical columns from leading players and journalists, The Nutmeg Mysteries – uncovering strang…
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193. Radical Connecticut: Labor Strikes!
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Author Steve Thornton asks “Who really makes history”? In his new book, Radical Connecticut: People’s History in the Constitution State, co-authored by Andy Piascik, guest Steve Thornton tells the stories of everyday people and well-known figures whose work has often been obscured, denigrated, or dismissed. There are narratives of movements, strike…
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My Sporting Hero: Gerry Britton on Kenny Dalglish
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'He was just cool.' The Partick Thistle legend grew up adoring the original King of Celtic Park - the haircut, the goals and the joy This podcast is part of a new, digital version of Nutmeg that will give you more of the Nutmeg stories you love, straight to your email inbox. You’ll get topical columns from leading players and journalists, The Nutme…
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My Sporting Hero: Leanne Crichton on Steven Gerrard
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Midfield maestro explains how she followed Liverpool legend’s triumphs and heartbreaks This podcast is part of a new, digital version of Nutmeg that will give you more of the Nutmeg stories you love, straight to your email inbox. You’ll get topical columns from leading players and journalists, The Nutmeg Mysteries – uncovering strange episodes in o…
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My Sporting Hero: Scott Brown on Tiger Woods
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Ayr United manager reflects on missing out on seeing his idol and playing with Scots golf stars. This podcast is part of a new, digital version of Nutmeg that will give you more of the Nutmeg stories you love, straight to your email inbox. You’ll get topical columns from leading players and journalists, The Nutmeg Mysteries – uncovering strange epi…
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My Sporting Hero: Craig Levein on Seve Ballesteros
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As the future Scotland manager watched the three-time Open champion on television, he felt a share of the joy that Ballesteros beamed out to the world This podcast is part of a new, digital version of Nutmeg that will give you more of the Nutmeg stories you love, straight to your email inbox. You’ll get topical columns from leading players and jour…
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Hello Nutmeg listener, Starting next week, Monday, August 5, we are launching a new, digital version of Nutmeg that will give you more of the Nutmeg stories you love, straight to your email inbox: original thinking and high-quality audio at least twice a week. On this feed, you’ll hear a new weekly show called My Sporting Hero – footballers telling…
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192. More than Dinosaurs: The New Peabody Museum of Natural History
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Have you ever discovered that one of your favorite places is being renovated? Like your grandmother’s kitchen, your favorite restaurant, or even a museum, and you worry that the charm or the appeal of the place might be gone after the renovation? Podcast editor Patrick O’Sullivan and Producer Mary Donohue went to just such a place, the Peabody Muse…
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191. The Hartford Circus Fire Tragedy
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This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Hartford Circus Fire. In this episode of Grating the Nutmeg, Natalie Belanger of the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History tells the story of the deadliest man-made disaster in Connecticut history. On July 6, 1944, the Big Top of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus caught fire during a …
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190. Phyllis Zlotnick, Disability Rights Activist
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July 1990 marked the passing of a landmark piece of federal legislation, the Americans with Disabilities Act, known as the ADA. To recognize this event and to celebrate Disability Pride Month, we are uncovering the legacy of disability rights leader, Phyllis Zlotnick (1942-2011). Zlotnick was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy at birth. Beginning in…
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189. Sherlock Holmes and William Gillette's Castle
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We love a Sherlock Holmes "who done it" whether it's Basil Rathbone from the 1940s, Benedict Cumberbacth from the 2000s, or Millie Bobby Brown as Sherlock's sister Enola Holmes from the 2020s. But it was a Hartford-born actor who gave Sherlock Holmes his signature look - his curved pipe, deerstalker cap and magnifying glass. William Gillette was bo…
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188. Revealing Queer Lives: Connecticut’s LGBTQ History
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June is PRIDE month and we’re celebrating by bringing you an episode about efforts to bring LGBTQ+ history to light. As one guest, historian William Mann writes, “Throughout its history, Connecticut’s LGBTQ population has moved from leading hidden, solitary lives to claiming visible, powerful, valuable, and contributing places in society.” In this …
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187. Derby's Charlton Comics: "No Other Place Like It"
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Did you know that comic books were invented in Connecticut? Well, sort of. There are lots of precedents for printing texts with images. But the origin of mass market comic book printing is 1930s Waterbury, where Eastern Color printing began by re-publishing comic strips from newspapers in magazine form. Eventually they partnered with Dell publishin…
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186. New Haven’s Pioneering Grove Street Cemetery
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It’s Spring in Connecticut and this episode is part of our celebration of May as Historic Preservation Month. Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven is the first planned cemetery in the country. The design of Grove Street Cemetery in the 1790s pioneered several of the features that became standard like family plots and an established walkway grid. It i…
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185. Connecticut Industries Unite for WWII Victory: Pratt, Read & Co Gliders
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In this episode, we uncover a Connecticut World War II story that features airplanes without engines. Sound crazy? You’ll learn how these engineless gliders helped beat the Nazis. Executive Producer Mary Donohue will also talk to the author of a new book that details the role that over 45 Connecticut companies played in producing the ammunition, we…
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184. The Borinqueneers: Puerto Rico’s Men of the 65th Regiment
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In this episode, we celebrate and commemorate National Borinqueneers Day coming up on April 13th. It recognizes the bravery, service, and sacrifice of the 65th Infantry Regiment, a United States Army unit that consisted mostly of soldiers from Puerto Rico and the only segregated Latino unit in the United States Army. But the honor and fidelity of t…
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183. Margaret Rudkin of Pepperidge Farm
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One of the most recognizable food brands in the world got started in a kitchen in Fairfield, Connecticut. In this episode, Natalie Belanger chats with historian Cathryn J. Prince about Margaret Rudkin, the woman who founded Pepperidge Farm. Read Prince's full-length article about Rudkin on the Connecticut Explored website here: https://www.ctexplor…
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182. Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
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Are they pirates, profiteers or legitimately authorized extensions of George Washington’s almost non-existent American Navy? We’ll find out with guest historian Eric Jay Dolin, author of Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American RevolutIon. Dolin will underscore an element missing from most maritime histories of the American Revolution: a ragtag …
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181. Hartford and the Great Migration, 1914-1950
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181. Hartford and the Great Migration, 1914-1950 In the February 4, 2024 issue of the New York Times, journalist Adam Mahoney describes the Great Migration as a time when millions of Black people left the South to escape segregation, servitude and lynching and went North in search of jobs and stable housing. In this episode, host Mary Donohue will …
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180. Colonial Connecticut: Sugar, Slavery and Connections to the West Indies
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Although Connecticut sometimes seems like such a small, isolated place on the map, it was connected to the far-flung, complex, cosmopolitan British empire even in the 17th century. This year on Grating the Nutmeg, we’re going to explore Connecticut’s maritime history with episodes on Colonial Connecticut’s trade with the British colonies of the Car…
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179. Connecticut’s Benedict Arnold: America’s Most Hated Man
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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 listeners-we had 30,106 downloads in 2023! That’s our best year ever! We have brand new Facebook and Instagram pages under Grating the Nutmeg-please follow us and you’ll get behind the scenes photos, sne…
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178. Mark Twain, Spiritualism and Ghost Stories
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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, he describes family patriarch Commodore Vanderbilt’s interest in Spiritualism and clairvoyance. Cooper writes “Evidence suggests that the Commodore had begun attending seances as early as 1864, but given …
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