Kincraig Estate, Easter, "Music Froze in the Horn," Wertheim Jumps for Moving Train and Stolen Cars!

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On Greenwich in the Gilded Age, our journey takes us to the Greenway estate, known as Kincraig -and in the early years of the 21st century as Cooper Beech Farm. Built in 1898 on the shores of the Mianus River and Long Island Sound, its principal owner was Harriet Lauder Greenway. The estate is for sale! It can be yours for $150 million. 

On Greenwich Life As It Is -And Was, columnist Lucien B. Edwards published a piece a century ago about Easter Sunday, and how it was observed.  

On Easter Sunday 1923, the cold temperatures were so intense that it prevented the trumpet player at the top of the Second Congregational Church’s steeple from playing the anthem, “I Know That My Redeemer Liveth.” 

As we continue to mark the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Greenwich Police Department, I’ll share news of burglaries, arrests and crimes committed and recorded throughout Greenwich's history.

On Greenwich Before 2000, we’ll go back in time to the year 1949. 

You’ll also hear about the first brick house in Greenwich, how Maurice Wertheim of Cos Cob was nearly killed at the Greenwich Railroad Depot in 1914, a dinner of the Connecticut Men’s League for Woman Suffrage at the Greenwich Country Club, a new residential park in Riverside in 1908, the wedding of French Interior Minister Clemenceau to Mary Plummer of Greenwich in 1906, and a well-known traveler in Greenwich who wrote about China a century ago.

There’s lots to see, to do, and to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich.

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

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