Genjiro Yeto & Cos Cob Art Colony, Yasukata Murai House, Shandong Question, Chinese Artist Kong Bai Ji & More!

 

Yasukata Murai House, A Greenwich landmarked home circa 1889 in Riverside.

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Welcome to the 28th of May 2024 show.

Every year, May marks Asian American and Pacific Islander Month throughout the United States. On today's show, we'll feature examples of that heritage in Greenwich, Connecticut's history.

Genjiro Yeto with artists of the Cos Cob colony dressed in Japanese kimonos, ca. 1897. 
Greenwich Historical Society Photograph Collection.

We'll begin the show with an encore rebroadcast of a conversation with Karen Frederick, formerly the Curator of Museum Collections of the Greenwich Historical Society. Our subject was Genjiro Yeto, whose influence on the American Impressionist Art Colony at Cos Cob is noted in the 21st century. 

In 1919, Dr. George Vincent, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, addressed a gathering of Greenwich society people at a private home off North Street. He had just returned from a tour of Eastern Asia. His topic that evening concerned the "Shandong Question" in China -as to whether the province should be given to Japan. 

Yasukata Murai was a Japanese-born silk importer. He purchased a plot of land on Glen Avon Drive that fronted the Mianus River, constructing a Queen Ann-style home adorned with Japanese elements in 1889. The Yasukata Murai House is a designated landmark home by the Greenwich Historical Society.

Avalokitesvara Stone Statue, by Kong Bai Ji.

Many today are unaware that Greenwich, Connecticut became the home of one of China's trailblazing contemporary artists from the post-Cultural Revolution era. Kong Bai Ji spent his final 28 years living in Greenwich. (His obituary)

LIFE: Six Women Photographers on Exhibit Until July 7, 2024. 

The Greenwich Historical Society is hosting a series of exhibitions and public events -and you're invited! 

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 4th of June 2024. 

HMT Rohna Disaster : The Greenwich Connection, Memorial Day 1924 and 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!

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 21st of May 2024 show.

On Thanksgiving Day, 1943, 2000 American soldiers boarded the British transport ship HMT Rohna. 

On the following day, off the coast of Algeria, the ship was attacked and destroyed in what remains today as the greatest loss of life due to enemy action in U.S. war history. 

The attack on the HMT Rohna was classified for decades -until 1993. Why?

Greenwich resident Catherine Ladnier, with John Dolin and Joe Webber of West Haven, Connecticut shared with me and my audience the startling details in 2019.

That includes the Greenwich, Connecticut ties to the HMT Rohna attack, and its consequences. (HMT Rohna Documentary)

As we approach Memorial Day 2024, it is my pleasure to offer this special re-broadcast in memory of those 1015 soldiers who perished.

You'll also hear about how Memorial Day was observed in Greenwich a century ago. 

LIFE: Six Women Photographers on Exhibit Until July 7, 2024. 

The Greenwich Historical Society is hosting a series of exhibitions and public events -and you're invited! 

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 28th of May 2024. On that show we will observe Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month in Greenwich, Connecticut's history. 

Day Cottage, E.C. Benedict, Garden Club of Old Greenwich's Centennial, Events & More!

 

Commodore E.C. Benedict. 

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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!

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 14th of May 2024 show.

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

In 1926, Greenwich's Judge Frederick A. Hubbard reminisced about one of the great luminaries of the Gilded Age era, Commodore E. C. Benedict. 

The Garden Club of Old Greenwich is celebrating its centennial, as featured in Greenwich Time. 

Greenwich's Police Department was founded in 1906. History is replete with wrongdoings and misdeeds  on Crimes and Misdemeanors. On this week's show, you'll hear about a domestic quarrel that came to the attention of the local court. 

LIFE: Six Women Photographers on Exhibit Until July 7, 2024. 

The Greenwich Historical Society is hosting a series of exhibitions and public events -and you're invited! 

Mugs & Motors, presented by the Coffee For Good Teen Board, is back! Saturday, May 18, 2024, 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. behind the Solomon Mead House, 48 Maple Avenue, Greenwich behind the Second Congregational Church. 

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 21st of May 2024.

Curtiss & Redington Cottages, 1958, Explosion in 'Perry Lots,' Tied to a Wheelbarrow & More!

First Presbyterian Church, circa 1890

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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!

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 7th of May 2024 show.

Reminder: Mother's Day is May 12! Shop the Greenwich Historical Society's Museum Store! Shop the Online Store!

Superb gifts! Free parking and gift-wrapping! 

Enjoy free coffee or tea in the Artist's Cafe in the Toby's Tavern Building!

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

On Greenwich Before 2000, we'll cast our gaze back to Year 1958.

A century ago, in April, 1924, an explosion rocked the vicinity of lower Lake Avenue. Dynamite, stored in a shed on former Rockefeller property being developed at the time by The Greenwich Land and Development Company. 

Also a century ago, a 28-year-old Stamford native arrived in Greenwich on a forty-day "walking wager" from Bangor, Pennsylvania on his way to Boston -while shackled with handcuffs to a wheelbarrow. 

On Greenwich Life As It Is-And Was, Lucien B. Edwards took his readers back to the history of the Presbyterian Church located opposite the head of Greenwich Avenue. 

Greenwich's Police Department was founded in 1906. History is replete with wrongdoings and misdeeds  on Crimes and Misdemeanors. 

LIFE: Six Women Photographers on Exhibit Until July 7, 2024. 

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 14th of May 2024.