Second Congregational Church's 1919 Bell, Boss Tweed in Greenwich, Belle Haven's Name & More!

 

Indian Harbor Hotel and Americus Club, circa 1890. Demolished
1895. Image Credit: Greenwich Historical Society. 

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Welcome to the 30th of January, 2024 show.

Image Credit: Connecticut Explored. 

He was in his time America's most notorious rogue who arrived in Greenwich, Connecticut in 1860. His name? William Marcey "Boss" Tweed. 

Image Credit: Jeffrey Bingham Mead

Image Credit: Jeffrey Bingham Mead

On Greenwich Life As It Is-And Was, Erwin Edwards shared the news of the Year 1919 bell in the steeple of the Second Congregational Church presented on Easter Sunday by Charles N. Mead -and previous bells, too. 

Greenwich's Police Department was founded in 1906. History is replete with wrongdoings and misdeeds, which will be shared on Crime and Misdemeanors. On today's show? Highway robbery in Glenville. 

Learn more about exhibits and events at the Greenwich Historical Society. 

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. 

Contact me and join our growing number of listeners anytime via email at greenwichatownforallseasons@gmail.com. 

Show podcast episodes are posted weekly on various social media platforms. Click this link to the show's Facebook site. 

I also encourage you to like and visit the group You Know You're From Greenwich Ct If, where links to the show are posted weekly, too. 

Mark your calendars. The next show is scheduled for Tuesday, the 6th of February, 2024.

Research Services with John Bridge, McCord Cottage & Mausoleum, Town Hall Burns & More!

 

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This podcast is made possible by Alexander Affiliates, Eastern Neurologic Services, Kevin M. J. O'Connor of Jeffrey Matthews Wealth Management, and listeners like you everywhere on the Atlantic Learning Consortium Network!

Mr. Myllan Mosquera provides the best in reliable curbside door-to-door airport transportation services. I recommend Myllan without hesitation. Go with the peace of mind knowing that you'll travel in good hands. Please contact him anytime at 1.203.621.8383. Tell him I sent you. 

Michael Helupka Tree Service, LLC in Greenwich has been my choice for professional tree work for years.  I've been impressed and a satisfied customer -and you will be, too. Call 203.622.8737.

Welcome to the 23rd of January, 2024 show.

You’ll hear my conversation with John Bridge, research assistant of the Greenwich Historical Society.

On Greenwich in the Gilded Age, we’ll take you to McCord Cottage in Belle Haven and McCord Mausoleum in Putnam-St. Mary’s Cemetery.

A century ago, Judge Frederick A. Hubbard reminisced about the original town hall burning down in 1874.

I share with you the announcement of the groundbreaking of the Pickwick Arms Hotel. 

You’ve come to the right place to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut, one of America's most 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. 

Contact me and join our growing number of listeners anytime via email at greenwichatownforallseasons@gmail.com. 

Show podcast episodes are posted weekly on various social media platforms. Click this link to the show's Facebook site. 

I also encourage you to like and visit the group You Know You're From Greenwich Ct If, where links to the show are posted weekly, too. 

Mark your calendars. The next show is scheduled for Tuesday, the 30th of January, 2024.

E.C. Potter's Studio, Ulysses S. Grant in Stamford, Helen Keller in Port Chester & More!

 

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This podcast is made possible by Alexander Affiliates, Eastern Neurologic Services, Kevin M. J. O'Connor of Jeffrey Matthews Wealth Management, and listeners like you everywhere on the Atlantic Learning Consortium Network!

Mr. Myllan Mosquera provides the best in reliable curbside door-to-door airport transportation services. I recommend Myllan without hesitation. Go with the peace of mind knowing that you'll travel in good hands. Please contact him anytime at 1.203.621.8383. Tell him I sent you. 

Michael Helupka Tree Service, LLC in Greenwich has been my choice for professional tree work for years.  I've been impressed and a satisfied customer -and you will be, too. Call 203.622.8737.

Welcome to the 16th of January, 2024 show.

In 1903 -long before Edward C. Potter’s statue of Col. Raynal C. Bolling was installed in front of the Havemeyer School Building, the people of Greenwich were introduced to the famous sculptor’s studio off North Street.

In neighboring Port Chester in 1913, Helen Keller and her teacher, Anne Sullivan, delivered a lecture under the auspices of the Port Chester Woman’s Club, with many from Greenwich attending.

Davis Tidal Mill. 

On Greenwich Life As It Is-And Was, Lucien B. Edwards wrote in 1924 about the town’s dwindling number of tidal mills. 

In 1880, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant appeared in Stamford, with Civil War veterans from both Stamford and Greenwich serving as an honor guard.

In 1919, a protest and petition was formulated against the showing of movies on Sundays. 

At a wedding in Glenville in 1911, the bride, Miss Mary Tvbjk married John Chevinz. She was presented with “about $40, with which to start a housekeeping, each male guest presented who danced with her paying $1 for the privilege.” Not a bad way to finance a new business. 

In 1928, Vito Dalto of South Water Street in Byram (formerly East Port Chester) was getting his haircut in the Sokol Barber Shop on Mill Street where be became ill -and died on his way to United Hospital in Port Chester. 

You’ll hear more about the Pickwick Arms Hotel of Greenwich, too.

 

Learn more about this exhibit here. 

You’ve come to the right place to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut, one of America's most 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. 

Contact me and join our growing number of listeners anytime via email at greenwichatownforallseasons@gmail.com. 

Show podcast episodes are posted weekly on various social media platforms. Click this link to the show's Facebook site. 

I also encourage you to like and visit the group You Know You're From Greenwich Ct If, where links to the show are posted weekly, too. 

Mark your calendars. The next show is scheduled for Tuesday, the 23rd of January 2023.

On that show, you'll learn about the research services offered by the Greenwich Historical Society from John Bridge. 

A century ago, Judge Frederick A. Hubbard shared his reminiscences of the burning in 1874 of the original Town Hall -the one where the Soldier's Monument at East Putnam and Maple avenues is today. 

And that's for starters! There will be more. 

Col. Bolling's Statue, Edward Mead's House, A Battleship in Greenwich Harbor, Bootleggers and More!

 

Edward Mead House, Built 1832. 

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This podcast is made possible by Alexander Affiliates, Eastern Neurologic Services, Kevin M. J. O'Connor of Jeffrey Matthews Wealth Management, and listeners like you everywhere on the Atlantic Learning Consortium Network!

Mr. Myllan Mosquera provides the best in reliable curbside door-to-door airport transportation services. I recommend Myllan without hesitation. Go with the peace of mind knowing that you'll travel in good hands. Please contact him anytime at 1.203.621.8383. Tell him I sent you. 

Michael Helupka Tree Service, LLC in Greenwich has been my choice for professional tree work for years.  I've been impressed and a satisfied customer -and you will be, too. Call 203.622.8737.

Welcome to the 9th of January, 2024 show.

Col. Raynal C. Bolling's statue in front of the
Havemeyer Building off Greenwich Avenue.

'Bolling Statue A Work of Art' proclaimed the Greenwich News and Graphic on November 19, 1920. "It was about a year ago that E.C. otter, the noted sculptor, of Greenwich, began the work on a statue of the late Col. Raynal C. Bolling, one of the first prominent American victims of the world war, who was killed by a German bullet while performing a valiant service for his country." 

Bolling is also known in Greenwich for Greyledge, one of the town's "Great Estates."

A century ago, in January, 1924, Lucian P. Edwards published a piece in his column, Greenwich Life As It Is-And Was on Greenwich's private schools.

A battleship like this anchored in Greenwich Harbor. 

In August, 1916, the people of Greenwich learned, "the torpedo boat destroyer Sampson, one of the newest craft in the United States Navy, was anchored in Greenwich Harbor over the weekend, and hundreds of persons took advantage of the opportunity to inspect one of the units in Uncle Sam's great fleet of sea fighters." Sailors donned in USN uniforms were much in evidence on the streets of Greenwich, while officers were entertained at the Indian Harbor Yacht Club. 

Sketch artist and author Whitman Bailey introduced his readers to Judge George W. Brush and Joseph E.B. Brush, Characters About Town in Days Gone By.

Greenwich's Police Department was founded in 1906. History is replete with wrongdoings and misdeeds -and you’ll hear about those on Crimes and Misdemeanors. In today's show? Bootleggers. 

You’ve come to the right place to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut, one of America's most 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. 

Contact me and join our growing number of listeners anytime via email at greenwichatownforallseasons@gmail.com. 

Show podcast episodes are posted weekly on various social media platforms. Click this link to the show's Facebook site. 

I also encourage you to like and visit the group You Know You're From Greenwich Ct If, where links to the show are posted weekly, too. 

At the Greenwich Historical Society until February 4, 2024. 

Mark your calendars. The next show is scheduled for Tuesday, the 16th of January, 2024.