Grating the Nutmeg
206 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsConnecticut 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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Episodes
6. IRISH EYES, AND VOTING AND PROTESTING
March 13, 2016 15:03 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBJust in time for St. Paddy's Day, Jamie Eves of the Windham Textile and History Museum in Willimantic talks to State Historian Walt Woodward about their new exhibit "Irish Eyes: The Irish Experience in a Connecticut Mill Town. Then, in "What's It All About?", the Connecticut Explored editorial team discusses the articles in the Spring 2016 issue focused on civic engagement including Mary Donohue on religious equality for Jews and Dave Corrigan on the income tax protest of 19...
5. WHAT MAKES CONNECTICUT CONNECTICUT
March 03, 2016 12:51 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MBThis podcast was inspired by Connecticut Captured: A 21st Century Look at an American Classic, on view at the Connecticut Historical Society in Hartford through March 12. This exhibit, by acclaimed visual documentarian Carol M. Highsmith, is an effort to capture in images the character of Connecticut in the 21st century. State Historian Walter Woodward worked with Carol Highsmith on this project, and when the exhibit opened, he and his musical group The Band of Steady Habits gave...
4: CONNECTICUT CLOCKS AND AMERICAN WORDS
February 10, 2016 21:13 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBIn our first segment, Jennifer LaRue takes you to the American Clock and Watch Museum in Bristol, where Executive Director Patti Philippon tells us about the Mickey Mouse watch that saved the Timex Company during the Great Depression, and so much more. The sound of the many different clocks ticking, ringing, and counting the time make this episode a feast for the ears. In segment two, Sarajane Cedrone finds out why Noah Webster's dictionary was so revolutionary when she visits Je...
3: SPEED DATE A HISTORY CONFERENCE / MUSICAL CLUB OF HARTFORD
January 14, 2016 15:44 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MBIn Grating the Nutmeg Episode 3, State Historian Walt Woodward takes you on a whirlwind tour of the Fall 2015 Association for the Study of Connecticut History conference, whose focus was "Connecticut in World War I". In part one of a two-part program Woodward condenses talks on weapons and whaling, the wartime transformation of Bridgeport, and Connecticut's women physicians in the war doown to their essence. There's also a lunch time conversation with CCSU professor Matt Warshauer on a new e...
2: ICONIC BRANDS / AUDOBON BIRD CALL / TOASTER?
December 16, 2015 01:43 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBListen in as the editorial team of Connecticut Explored discusses highlights of the Winter 2015-2016 issue - on Connecticut's iconic brands. Then go on a field trip with historian Rich Malley to hear Roger Eddy's Audubon bird call in action and visit the New Britain Industrial Museum to find out about hardware and appliances from long ago.
1: WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT / LEBANON'S AMAZING BENEFACTOR
November 22, 2015 18:06 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MBIn this first podcast, publisher Elizabeth Normen, Editor Jennifer LaRue, and State Historian Walt Woodward explain what Grating the Nutmeg is About; how it got its spicy name; and what their vision for its development is. Then, inspired by the Fall 2015 Connecticut Explored issue on the history of Connecticut philanthropy, Walt Woodward visits Lebanon's historic green to learn from Ed Tollman about that town's amazing life-long benefactor, Hugh Trumbull Adams. Grating the Nu...