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.

 

 

 

 

Happy Halloween 2024 in Historic Greenwich, Connecticut!

 

Gravestone of Gershom Lockwood, died 1718, Tomac Cemetery, Old Greenwich.

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Welcome to the 29th of October 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.

Halloween, 1911.

Happy Halloween 2024 to all the trick-or-treaters out there, near and far.

 

On today's show, we'll go back in time and in Greenwich's history on this the spookiest time of the year. You'll hear a sampling of how Halloween was celebrated.

Bush Family Plot in Putnam Cemetery, transferred here in 1894.

Last year, Greenwich Time featured a story by Rob Marchant about a Bush cemetery and a mysterious vault full of bodies in the Field Point/Belle Haven area.  

 

 

I'll share the original story from 1894 by Judge Frederick A. Hubbard that included the re-internment of burials to Putnam Cemetery.

 

You'll also hear about a Halloween party held in Bush Holley House featuring guests from local society and the artist's colony.   

In 1906, the Greenwich Police Department was founded. We're pleased to take our listeners back in time on Crimes and Misdemeanors, a segment of the show chronicling crime and law enforcement. 

It's thrills and chills you won't want to miss. 

 

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 Tuesday, Election Day, the 5th of November 2024. 

Jack's Island, 1778, Halloween 1907 & More!

 

Views of the Belle Haven Club and 'Jack's Island' after flooding caused by a major storm in November 1992. (Credit: Greenwich Historical Society)

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Welcome to the 22nd of October 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 visit Jack's Island in Belle Haven -made possible by Victorian Summer: The Historic Houses of Belle Haven Park, Greenwich, Connecticut by Matt Bernard.  

Greenwich During the Revolutionary War: A Frontier Town on the Front Line has opened to the public at the Greenwich Historical Society. 

On today's show, you'll learn what happened in town in Year 1778, thanks to Greenwich Before 2000, an updated, revised edition of another earlier Greenwich history book, Before and After 1776: The Comprehensive Chronology of the Town of Greenwich. Both books are available for borrowing from the Greenwich Library System. Visit greenwichlibrary.org. 

To say the least, Halloween is just around the corner. On today's show I'll share a sampling of how Halloween was observed in 1907.

 

 

*Please mark your calendars for Tuesday, November 12, 2024, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The Women's Fellowship of the Second Congregational Church invites the public to a lecture by Davidde Strackbein of the Greenwich Historical Society about the Great Estates of Greenwich. 

 

Reservations required. $20/person includes lunch. Call 203.869.9311 or email pam@2cc.org. Fletcher Hall, 139 East Putnam Avenue.

 

 

*On Saturday, November 9, 224, in honor of our courageous veterans this Veterans Day Weekend, the Greenwich Historical Society will host a screening of the documentary film Rohna Classified.

This illuminative documentary sheds a spotlight on the captivating true story of the HMT Rohna, a British transport ship carrying 2,000 U.S. soldiers journeying to China to aid in their war efforts against Japan in WWII. The HMT Rohna was destroyed en route by a German assault from one of the first radio-guided missiles in war history. This culminated in the loss of 1,015 U.S. soldiers who were aboard the ship. 

Among the lives lost were 16 men from Connecticut, including Greenwich native John Campbell Moore. 

This remains the most significant loss of soldiers at sea in U.S. naval history. 

The documentary examines why the casualties were so high in this catastrophic event, and further explores the circumstances that concealed it from common knowledge.

Following the screening, there will be a Q&A session with the documentary’s filmmakers and descendants of those aboard the Rohna. Producer, director, and writer, Jack Ballo will share the story of how he learned about the Rohna disaster and his family’s connection to it. 

The niece of a survivor, Catherine Ladnier, will discuss her process of researching John Campbell Moore. 

This Q&A will provide an in-depth and personal perspective on this event that has largely been obscured from U.S. history, and aims to put the HMT Rohna back into the historical narrative for its veterans.

Registration is required due to limited capacity. This event is free and open to the public.

For more information on the documentary, and to view the documentary trailer, visit: https://www.rohnaclassified.com/.

*An encore broadcast of her original appearance on the Greenwich, A Town For All Seasons Show Podcast with Jeffrey Bingham Mead will be featured on the Tuesday, November 5, 2024 show. 

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 Tuesday, the 29th of October 2024.