Monday, May 27, 2019

Julien Icher, Founder & Executive Director of The Lafayette Trail Project (SHOW #18, May 22, 2019)






My guest on Wednesday, May 22, 2019 broadcast was Julien Icher, the founder and executive director of the Lafayette Trail Project. 

The project traces to route taken in 1824-25 by the Marquis de Lafayette which would turn out to be his farewell tour of the United States of America. Lafayette visited the Town of Greenwich in 1824.

We'll hear about the project as we expect and look forward to Julien Icher's upcoming visit to Greenwich.


In addition, Host Jeffrey Bingham Mead read a selection from Spencer P. Mead's Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich that documents Lafayette's visit to town.


The show was made possible by the Acacia Lodge No. 85 Greenwich Free Masons. Pillars of the community since the 18th century in Greenwich, we thank the Greenwich Free Masons for its support. Click here for a news piece on Greenwich Free Press. 

Tune in to the broadcast of Greenwich, A Town For All Seasons on Radio 1490 WGCH and WGCH.com anywhere. It starts at 9:00 a.m., Eastern Time every other Wednesday morning after the top-of-the-hour news.


The host and producer of the show is Jeffrey Bingham Mead, a descendant of the founders of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut (Founded July 18, 1640). 



 Also, please CLICK THIS LINK to the current crowdfunding campaign to support and underwrite the costs of producing and bringing you Greenwich, A Town For All Seasons on 1490 WGCH and WGCH.com anywhere.
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Genjiro Yeto and Japanese Influences on the Cos Cob American Impressionist Art Colony (SHOW #17, May 8, 2019)





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May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. On the Wednesday, May 8 broadcast of Greenwich, A Town For All Seasons, Host Jeffrey Bingham Mead welcomed Karen Frederick, curator of Museum Collections of the Greenwich Historical Society. 

Japanese culture made its mark on the American Impressionist Art Colony in Cos Cob. Genjiro Yeto -an unassuming Japanese artist who studied at the Arts Students League of New York and spent time at the Cos Cob art colony- was the topic of conversation. 



A gathering of Greenwich society people was held in a private home off North Street in 1919. The featured speaker was Dr. George Vincent, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, who had just returned from China. World War I had ended, but problems were plenty. To the people of Greenwich it was 'Shandong For China' -and resulting sentiments in Greenwich favored the return of that Chinese province to China. Read here about the role the Chinese played in the First World War. 


We'll cast our gaze to the islands of Hawaii where Horton Owen Knapp of Round Hill journeyed to in 1837 as a missionary, meeting his calling and his passing at age 32. 

Tune in to the broadcast of Greenwich, A Town For All Seasons on Radio 1490 WGCH and WGCH.com anywhere. It starts at 9:00 a.m., Eastern Time every other Wednesday morning after the top-of-the-hour news. 


The host and producer of the show is Jeffrey Bingham Mead, a descendant of the founders of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut (Founded July 18, 1640). 


Contact the show at GreenwichATownForAllSeasons@gmail.com. 

 Also, please CLICK THIS LINK to the current crowdfunding campaign to support and underwrite the costs of producing and bringing you Greenwich, A Town For All Seasons on 1490 WGCH and WGCH.com anywhere.
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Shelia Graves, Historian of the Indian Harbor Yacht Club Joins Us (SHOW #16, April 24, 2019)







Our next excursion into Greenwich's history takes us to one of its most renowned institutions: the Indian Harbor Yacht Club. 
With the generous assistance of Sue Hill McClenachan, the club's historian -Shelia Graves- was my next guest on the Wednesday, April 24, 2019 broadcast that started at 9:00 a.m., just after the top-of-the-hour news. 


We'll have our next installment on 19th century Greenwich Protestant missionaries who traveled to the Hawaiian Island -never to return to their ancestral homes here. Round Hill-born Charlotte Close Knapp was one of world-famous Punahou School's first teachers with her second husband, the Rev. Daniel Dole.
Tune in to the broadcast of Greenwich, A Town For All Seasons on Radio 1490 WGCH and WGCH.com anywhere. It starts at 9:00 a.m., Eastern Time every other Wednesday morning after the top-of-the-hour news.


The host and producer of the show is Jeffrey Bingham Mead, a descendant of the founders of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut (Founded July 18, 1640). 


Contact the show at GreenwichATownForAllSeasons@gmail.com. 

 Also, please CLICK THIS LINK to the current crowdfunding campaign to support and underwrite the costs of producing and bringing you Greenwich, A Town For All Seasons on 1490 WGCH and WGCH.com anywhere.
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ANNOUNCEMENT! Listen to the Show on SoundCloud!



We're delighted to share the good news that broadcasts of Greenwich, A Town For All Seasons are now available on SoundCloud. 

 Click here for 2018 shows, and click here for 2019 shows. 

 SoundCloud is an online audio distribution platform and music sharing website based in Berlin, Germany that enables its users to upload, promote, and share audio.
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