Aloha from my home in Honolulu, Hawaii! Today is the final day of February 2023. What's this I hear about the early emergence of the crocuses on Put's Hill -and snow?
On today's show, I will be re-introducing to you the 19th century Greenwich and Stamford Congregationalists who embraced a life of missionary service in the Hawaiian Islands. Pictured above is Charlotte Close Knapp Dole, originally from Round Hill, Greenwich with her second husband, Rev. Daniel Dole, principal of Punahou School. You'll learn about Horton Owen Knapp and Dr. James William Smith.
On next week's show, I'll be featuring an on-site interview with Mike Smola, Curator of Public Programs at the Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives in Honolulu.
On Greenwich in the Gilded Age, our journey will take us to Otter Cottage in Belle Haven Park. Featured in Victorian Summer: The Historic Houses of Belle Haven Park, Greenwich, Connecticut by Matt Bernard, Otter Cottage was built for Henry H. Adams in 1892 and designed by architect Henry Waring Howard.
On Greenwich From Home, courtesy of the Greenwich Historical Society, you'll learn about Presidential Items in Our Collection by Anna Greco.
On Greenwich Life As It Is -And Was, Lucien Edwards wrote about The Old Round Hill Store: How Mr. Converse Saved Greenwich From a Water Famine in the March 2, 1923 edition of The Greenwich News and Graphic.
On Crimes and Misdemeanors, a violation of a new ordinance in Greenwich requiring "garbage wagons" to be properly covered caused Antonio Curcuruto to be arrested a century ago this week.
It’s Black or African American History Month. You’ll learn about one of Greenwich's earliest African American families, the Felmette's.
Elsewhere in Greenwich, it was announced a century ago this week that the Armory would be the setting for the town's first automobile show.
The ice in Greenwich Harbor extended all the way out to Great Captain's Island, requiring the Peter Mitchell Contracting Company to use dynamite to break up the ice so that two coal barges for the Maher Brothers Corporation could be docked.
On February 23, 1923, the people of Greenwich opened their copies of the Greenwich News and Graphic to learn about one of the greatest archeological discoveries ever: the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen of Egypt. The riches were said to be worth $15 million.
A letter to the editor in the February 26, 1881 edition of the Greenwich Observer described in "A Village Sketch" Round Hill.
People of Greenwich have been avid travelers for more than a century. In February, 1908, "Willie" Doran, "with an elegant coat of tan on face and hands and an additional twenty pounds over and above what he had when he went away," returned from a three month trip to the southern states.
There’s lots to see, to do, and to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich.
You’ve come to the right place to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut, one of America's most interesting and extraordinary communities.
We’ll have all this -and more- as our history continues to unfold.
I'm Jeffrey Bingham Mead, your host. Thank you for listening to the weekly podcast released on Tuesdays.
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