Conover Cottage, Green-Twachtman House, Market Boats on the Sound & More!

 

Conover Cottage, Belle Haven.

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Welcome to the 27th of February, 2024 show.

On Greenwich in the Gilded Age, we'll journey back in time and visit Conover Cottage, made possible by Victorian Summer: The Historic Houses of Belle Haven Park, Greenwich, Connecticut by Matt Bernard. 

You'll hear about the Green-Twachtman House on Round Hill Road -and an artistic acquisition of a work by Twachtman of this special home as Black History Month comes to a close. 

Artist Whitman Bailey shared his perspective on Greenwich Harbor in Winter, 1930. 

On Greenwich Life As It Is-And Was, Erwin Edwards recalls the old market boats in Greenwich -and the first sloop race on the Sound. 

In 1883 it was announced that -finally- the telephone was arriving in Greenwich!

Greenwich's Police Department was founded in 1906. History is replete with wrongdoings and misdeeds, which will be shared on Crime and Misdemeanors. 

Mark your calendars for LIFE: Six Women Photographers opening March 6, 2024 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 5th of March, 2024.

Project Archivist Ashley Aberg, Rosemary Hall's First Hop, Rev. Chauncey Wilcox, & 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 20th of February, 2024 show.

Ashley Aberg is the Greenwich Historical Society's Project Archivist. We sat down together in the library at the Society's headquarters in Cos Cob for some lively conversation about her work.

Deacon Silas Hervey Mead

You'll hear a story revealed to me in Hawaii from 19th century Greenwich history about two men -Rev. Chauncey Wilcox of the North Greenwich Congregational Church, and Deacon Silas Hervey Mead- who clashed on the subject of Abolitionism. 

Rosemary Hall was a girls school that opened in the Rock Ridge section of Greenwich, Connecticut in 1900. You'll learn about its first "hop" in mid-February, 1901. 

A young man from Ireland fell to his death in 1925 after climbing the water tower at Commodore E. C. Benedict's Indian Harbor, one of the town's Gilded Age shoreline estates. 

Greenwich's Police Department was founded in 1906. History is replete with wrongdoings and misdeeds, which will be shared on Crime and Misdemeanors. 

You'll hear about how the Police Commissioner of New York City, Richard Enright,  got into some trouble here. 

2024 Shining A Light Series.
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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 27th of February, 2024.

Shubal Brush -Abolitionist, Valentine's Day, Residential Parks, Milbrook & 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 13th of February, 2024 show.

Today’s show begins with Shubal Brush of Stanwich, who lived in the Brush Lockwood House located at the intersection of Taconic and North Stanwich roads. 

He was a tanner by profession -and as we observe Black History Month, an Abolitionist.

Valentine’s Day is soon upon us. You’ll hear a sampling of how the day was observed in Greenwich history.

Lucian B. Edwards published an article in his column Greenwich Life As It Is-And Was about the growing number of residential parks in town.

Speaking of residential parks, it was announced a century ago that Milbrook -south of the Boston Post Road or East Putnam Avenue- would be developed.  

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 20th of February, 2024.

Black Loyalists, Groundhog Day 1897, Richard Mead House Moved, & More!

 

The Main Branch of Greenwich Library stands at this location today. 

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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 6th of February, 2024 show.

This day on the calendar has been observed in Greenwich for generations. We'll go back in history to 1897. 

Dearfields (1799) with Lafayette -who visited the house in 1824. 

On one of our recent cold, wintery days I was "talking story" (an expression used often at my home in Hawaii) with a friend and listener in The Cafe at Greenwich Library. I mentioned that one of our Mead Family farms used to be there. 

In October, 1929, it was announced that Dearfields (built 1799) would be moved to a new location at 8 Grove Lane. Yes, the house is still there. 

On today's show I'll share excerpts of a brilliant article on Black Loyalists (to the British Crown) during the American Revolution, written by Greenwich's foremost historian on the town's African American history, Teresa Vega, published by the Connecticut Ancestry Society. 

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? Speeding cars -a subject we still grapple with in the 21st century. 

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 13th of February, 2024.