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Back by popular demand, I’ll take you on an excursion to one of Greenwich’s Great Estates. Henry William Croft decided to build a home in the mid country section of town. Finished in 1917, Grahampton was built of brick with a slate-to-tile roof with eight bedrooms, eleven fireplaces and six chimneys of nearly 300 hundred acres.
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| April 22, 1880: Greenwich Observer. |
From the Judge’s Corner, in 1930 Judge Frederick Hubbard told the story of a famous and gifted member of the Mead family of Greenwich -Deacon Abraham Mead, the eleventh son of Ebenezer Mead. He was a potter’s apprentice of Adam States of Dutch descent. His distinctive pottery exists in private collections, The Brooklyn Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
From Greenwich Before 2000, you’ll hear about historical events in the years 1875 and 1876.
In crimes and misdemeanors in Greenwich history -as we continue to observe the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Greenwich Police Department- I will share with you a Police raid that took place a century ago in May 1922 in a private dining room in the Pickwick Arms Hotel populated by members of the Greenwich Rotary Club.
In late April, 1922, the headlines read, ‘Italians Stage Wild West Hold-Up. Proprietors of Grocery in North Mianus Robbed in Bandit Fashion.’ Trust, me, I will have details.
It is often said that if you stand still long enough the weather changes here in the New England states. You’ll hear about an unseasonably warm period in January, 1882.
In June, 1922, two New York men had a reportedly thrilling experience on the waters of Long Island Sound when their motor boat ran out of gas. Captain Samuel Peterson of the Indian Harbor Yacht Club came to their rescue.
An anonymous Greenwich resident was fit to be tied. The foghorn on Great Captain’s Island was disturbing his peace of mind. He expressed himself in poetic form, and you’ll hear how.
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| December 23, 1942. |
In 1942, just before Christmas, it was announced that Patrolman James Finn was put in charge of the town's volunteer bomb agents.
As always, my friends, there’s more history out there than we know what to do with. I’ll have this and more as today’s show unfolds.
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