Thanksgiving, Curtiss & Redington Cottages, 1782 & 1783, John Fulton, Events and More!

 

Located on Greenwich Avenue where Lulu Lemon is in 2024. 

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Welcome to the 26th of November 2024 show.

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.

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

 

What happened in Years 1782 and 1783? Be sure to visit the Greenwich Historical Society's current exhibit, Greenwich During the Revolutionary War: A Frontier Town on the Front Line .

Crimes and Misdemeanors is the show segment on -you guess right- crimes in Greenwich's history. 

On Greenwich Life As It Is-And Was, Erwin Edwards wrote in 1922 about John Fulton -Greenwich, Connecticut first police officer. 

If you missed the recent screening of the documentary on the HMT Rohna Disaster in World War II we have good news.

By popular demand, the Greenwich Historical Society will be hosting a second-screening tonight, Tuesday, November 26, 2024. 

Learn more and register for this free event here.

 

We'll have all this -and more- as our history continues to unfold. 

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

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 Wednesday, the 3rd of December 2024. 

 

 

1780, Proud of Our Cops, Borough A Century Ago & More!

 

40 Bush Avenue, Greenwich.

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Welcome to the 19th of November 2024 show.

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.

Call-A-Ride of Greenwich provides free door-to-door transportation for ambulatory seniors over age 60, Monday-Friday, to any location in town. Call 203.661.6633. CallARideGreenwich.org

On Greenwich in the Gilded Age, we'll take you to XXX in Belle Haven -made possible by Victorian Summer: The Historic Houses of Belle Haven Park, Greenwich, Connecticut by Matt Bernard. 

The central business and residential area of Greenwich was once a separate borough. In Greenwich Life As It Is-And Was, Lucien B. Edwards penned an article about how the borough had grown a century ago.

 

What happened in Year 1780? Be sure to visit the Greenwich Historical Society's current exhibit, Greenwich During the Revolutionary War: A Frontier Town on the Front Line .

Crimes and Misdemeanors is the show segment on -you guess right- crimes in Greenwich's history.  There was a wild chase for auto thieves in 1925, as well as news that the fame associated with town police officers "is spreading far and wide." Bootleggers and auto thieves beware!

If you missed the recent screening of the documentary on the HMT Rohna Disaster in World War II we have good news.

By popular demand, the Greenwich Historical Society will be hosting a second-screening on Tuesday, November 26, 2024. This is on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. 

 

Learn more and register for this free event here.

 

We'll have all this -and more- as our history continues to unfold. 

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

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 Wednesday, the 26th of November 2024. 

 

Seven Gables, Three Islands, 1779, "All Were Drunk" & More!

 

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Welcome to the 13th of November 2024 show.

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.

On Greenwich in the Gilded Age, we'll take you to Seven Gables in Belle Haven -made possible by Victorian Summer: The Historic Houses of Belle Haven Park, Greenwich, Connecticut by Matt Bernard. 

Three islands off the Greenwich coast were the subject of a piece by Erwin Edwards in Greenwich As It Is -And Was.

 

What happened in Year 1779? Be sure to visit the Greenwich Historical Society's current exhibit, Greenwich During the Revolutionary War: A Frontier Town on the Front Line .

Crimes and Misdemeanors is the show segment on -you guess right- crimes in Greenwich's history. A group of intoxicated "Joy Riders" made history on the Boston Post Road a century ago in 1924. 

 

Lawrence Wilkinson met a calm but untimely death in his room in the Lenox Hotel in 1895. 

If you missed the recent screening of the documentary on the HMT Rohna Disaster in World War II we have good news.

By popular demand, the Greenwich Historical Society will be hosting a second-screening on Tuesday, November 26, 2024. This is on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. 

 

Learn more and register for this free event here.

 

We'll have all this -and more- as our history continues to unfold. 

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

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 Wednesday, the 19th of November 2024. 

 

Veterans Day, the HMT Rohna Disaster Documentary Screening and More!

 

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Welcome to the Veteran's Day, 11th of November 2024 show.

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.

We've postponed the usual scheduled release of this podcast to correspond with Veteran's Day -which is observed on the 11th of November each year. 

 

Normally, the show would have been released on Election Day, the 5th of November.

 

This past Saturday morning, the Greenwich Historical Society hosted the screening of an extraordinary documentary that has a Greenwich connection.

 

When the readers of the Rochester Times-Union received their Thursday evening, June 14, 1945 editions, they and Americans across the nation learned of the greatest single transport disaster during World War II. 

In the darkness of the night, and in poor weather conditionsd, the British troop ship HMT Rohna sank after a 30-minute enemy air attack on November 26, 1943 off the coast of Algeria.

Of the 1,981 U.S. Navy personnel aboard 1,015 were lost -including one named James Campbell Moore who called Greenwich, Connecticut home.

It would be many years before family members and the public would learn more details about the mysterious circumstances of the HMT Rohna disaster.

Originally aired in 2019, we're featuring an encore presentation by request of an interview between Host Jeffrey Bingham Mead and Greenwich Author Catherine Ladnier and her associates John Dolin and Joe Webber of West Haven, Connecticut -all of the Rohna Survivors Memorial Association.

If you missed this past weekend's screening of the documentary on the Rohna Disaster we have good news.

By popular demand, the Greenwich Historical Society will be hosting a second-screening on Tuesday, November 26, 2024. This is on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. 

 

Learn more and register for this free event here.

 

We'll have all this -and more- as our history continues to unfold. 

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

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 Wednesday, the 13th of November 2024.

 

Landmark Celebration: First Congregational Church of Greenwich

 

On Saturday, November 2, 2024 there will be a public celebration of official Historical Landmark Status for the First Congregational Church of Greenwich.

This Old Greenwich institution, which is deeply tied into the Town’s history, has spent more than a year and a half working on the recognition with the Greenwich Historical Society. 

 

 

On Saturday, from 5 to 6 p.m., we will be able to celebrate the results of this hard work as the church’s Meetinghouse, which dates back to 1895, is made a Greenwich landmark.

 

First Congregational Church of Greenwich dates back to 1665 and is the founding church of Greenwich. Back then a town could not be recognized if it did not have a church  so it’s historical importance has always been well known.

The event is open to the community and people are encouraged to attend. 

 

A plaque will be unveiled and church historian Pat Larrabee will be there to take questions.