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Happy Thanksgiving! 

Let me be honest and say that I've lost count of the number of blessings I am thankful for this year. 

One blessing I am grateful for is you! Thank you, as always, for tuning in to this show.

The Greenwich, A Town For All Seasons Show Podcast is about the history and culture of Greenwich, Connecticut USA. 

Through it all this show is for you and all who appreciate and cherish this community's many blessings.

On this Thanksgiving Day 2021, I decided to do something a little different. A few of us gathered by the Greenwich shore for an early morning outdoor Thanksgiving breakfast. 

With not a cloud above us, the warm glow of the autumn morning sun filled our hearts with joy and gratitude.

My friends, whatever you do today my hope for you is that Thanksgiving brings you an abundance of delight and smiles from morning until evening. 

Here's what is coming up on today's show:

-I'll share with you a sampling of how the people of Greenwich observed the Thanksgiving holiday. 

-One hundred years ago this month, what was then the "new" Glenville School opened.

-Joseph Guiseppe Christiano was one of Greenwich's early 20th century success stories. He was profiled in the town's local press a century ago. You'll hear how.

-Also one hundred years ago, a New Jersey party returning from the Yale-Princeton football game narrowly ran his car off the stone pier at the terminus of Steamboat Road near the Indian Harbor Yacht Club. (see above)

-A swindler from New York City tried to pass a bogus check at a Greenwich leather goods store. It did not end well for him.

-You'll hear about a source of "keen delight in winter" in Greenwich: the moonlight sleigh ride party.

-Uh oh! A pastor of the Second Congregational Church resigned in 1897, calling the people of Greenwich "incorrigible." 

We'll have all this, news of events, and more as the show unfolds! 

This podcast is made possible by Peter F. Alexander of Site Design Associates; the Long Island Sound Institute (LISI); the Ambassador Museum United States of America, and Kevin M.J. O'Connor of the Jeffrey Matthews Financial Group. Thank you! 

Learn more about the Greenwich, A Town for All Seasons Show podcast hosted by Historian Jeffrey Bingham Mead at GreenwichATownForAllSeasons.blogspot.com. 

Contact us at GreenwichATownForAllSeasons@gmail.com. 

We’re always looking for guests to be on the show to share their stories about the history and culture of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut -one of America’s premier communities. 

You’re invited to advertise and underwrite future shows! Go through our GoFundMe site or email us for rates. 

It's Time! The Friday, November 12, 2021 Show is Here! Your History Will Never be the Same!

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Welcome to the Friday, November 12, 2021 edition of the one and only Greenwich, A Town For All Seasons Show Podcast, hosted by Jeffrey Bingham Mead, a direct descendant of the 17th century founders of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut USA. 

Today's show will be coming from various locations, all thanks to the miracles of 21st century modern technology. 

Listening to today's show just might change the course of your life into something riveting and sensational! Your history will never be the same! 

We'll take you back in time to 1921 when the people of Greenwich paused to commemorate Armistice Day. The first Veterans Day was held in 1954, and you'll learn about how Greenwich observed the occasion.  

Last week you heard the news from 1931 that the attempt was made to rename Lake Avenue to Horseneck Road. A newspaper on Waterbury disagreed with Judge Frederick Hubbard's stance, supporting Julian Curtiss instead.

Headlines proclaimed their marriage "a farce," and no doubt tongues wagged when Mrs. John Piagalou -better known as Hollywood screen star Constance Talmadge- separated, just a year after being married by a Greenwich justice of the peace. 

It's autumn in Greenwich -and chrysanthemums are everywhere. One of Greenwich's "Great Estates" was Milbank. I'll take you back in time to 1893 when the Milbank estate's greenhouses were thrown open to the public for a chrysanthemum show. 

As we celebrate the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Greenwich Police Department, I'll share with on today's police blotter at a story from the Port Chester NY Journal dated 1906 of the arrest of John Bell. According to the story, Bell built the Indian Harbor Yacht Club at the end of Steamboat Road. The complaint to the police leading to Bell's arrest came from Percy Rockefeller, son of William Rockefeller. 

Constructed in 1916, The Pryory is a noted 'Great Estate' in Greenwich, Connecticut's history. It is one of a number of exclusive mansions on Field Point Circle. 

Sold for over $25 million in the summer of 2020 during the global pandemic, it was hoped that this recognized historic landmark would continue to be admired from the waters of Greenwich Harbor. Sadly, the sun will be setting forever on this iconic, historical mansion. 

I'll have news of happenings, public events and more as today's show unfolds.  Stick around! 

This podcast is made possible by Peter F. Alexander of Site Design Associates; the Long Island Sound Institute (LISI); the Ambassador Museum United States of America, and Kevin M.J. O'Connor of the Jeffrey Matthews Financial Group. Thank you! 

Learn more about the Greenwich, A Town for All Seasons Show podcast hosted by Historian Jeffrey Bingham Mead at GreenwichATownForAllSeasons.blogspot.com. 

Contact us at GreenwichATownForAllSeasons@gmail.com. 

We’re always looking for guests to be on the show to share their stories about the history and culture of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut -one of America’s premier communities. 

You’re invited to advertise and underwrite future shows! Go through our GoFundMe site or email us for rates. 

It's Time for the Friday, November 5 Show -An Experience Truly Unparalleled!

 

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This is the Friday, 5th of November 2021 Greenwich, A Town For All Seasons Show Podcast with your host, Jeffrey Bingham Mead!

Welcome to an experience truly unparalleled in the 381 years of Greenwich, Connecticut’s history. Lucky for you, you’ve come to the right place. 

By golly, you’re on-time, too! I hope you are as happy as I am to be here with you on this brisk, early November autumn day. 

The local elections are over! Congratulations to all candidates who threw their hats into the ring. 

Did you know that Greenwich drivers were being admonished about leaving their car keys in the ignition as early as 1945? 

That Conyers Farm almost became a bird sanctuary in 1915? 

That an effort to rename Lake Avenue to ‘Horseneck Road’ was stopped by Judge Frederick Hubbard? How? Why?

How much fun it must have been in 1904 when the congregation of Little Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church burned its mortgage? 

That Italian workers used dynamite cartridges to catch fish in Dumpling Pond in 1884? Not everyone was pleased.

Have you ever experienced a nightmare in which you fell into a tank full of apple cider? That happened to a man in Round Hill in 1891. 

We’ll have all this and lots more fun stuff on today’s weekly voyage into Greenwich, Connecticut’s fascinating history. It doesn’t get better than this.

This podcast is made possible by Peter F. Alexander of Site Design Associates; the Long Island Sound Institute (LISI); the Ambassador Museum United States of America, and Kevin M.J. O'Connor of the Jeffrey Matthews Financial Group. Thank you! 

Learn more about the Greenwich, A Town for All Seasons Show podcast hosted by Historian Jeffrey Bingham Mead at GreenwichATownForAllSeasons.blogspot.com. 

Contact us at GreenwichATownForAllSeasons@gmail.com. 

We’re always looking for guests to be on the show to share their stories about the history and culture of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut -one of America’s premier communities. 

You’re invited to advertise and underwrite future shows! Go through our GoFundMe site or email us for rates.