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On our July shows, we pleased to promote Michael Helupka Tree Service, LLC here in Greenwich. I was impressed and a satisfied customer -and you will be, too. Call 203.622.8737.
Happy Founders Day -Greenwich is 383 years strong in 2023! You’ll hear this year's Town of Greenwich official proclamation.
On Talk of the Town, you’ll hear an encore conversation I had in 2018 with Missy Wolfe, considered by many to be Greenwich’s leading authority on the town’s first century starting in 1640.
Wolfe is the author of Hidden History of Colonial Greenwich. Her study of the life of Greenwich founder Elizabeth Winthrop Feake Hallett, Insubordinate Spirit: A True Story of Life and Loss in Earliest America, won the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence.
On Greenwich in the Gilded Age, our visit will take us to Parke Cottage on Otter Rock Drive in Belle Haven -made possible on today's show by Victorian Summer: The Historic Houses of Belle Haven Park, Greenwich, Connecticut by Matt Bernard.
It is available for purchase at the Greenwich Historical Society's Museum Store, or copies may be borrowed through the Greenwich Library. It is richly illustrated, revealing a wealth of detailed history. I strongly recommend it.
On Greenwich Life: As It Is-And Was, Erwin Edwards penned a piece about the ‘Pickwick Corners’ building at the top of Greenwich Avenue constructed by Isaac Lewis Mead. The building -at the time of Edwards’ article- was a candy store and factory.
On Crimes and Misdemeanors, our featured crime history includes ‘Ladies in a Fight’ on Northfield Street area -and a poem composed by a Greenwich resident in the Bridgeport Jail a century ago. (See below)
And in other historical news, you'll hear about Boy Scout Troop #4 of North Greenwich who in 1923 “had an unusual outing in New York last week under the leadership of the Scoutmaster."
It was announced in Greenwich a century ago that the Rev. Anne C. Torrey was the first ordained female pastor in Fairfield County, Connecticut -and one of the very few in the New England states.
The first instance of sky-writing happened on August 9, 1923 for the Lucky Strike brand of cigarettes and tobacco.
In 1912, Greenwich families were treated to an advice column on how to amuse children.
In 1956, Greenwich’s people became “whisker conscious” with the upcoming 216th aniversary of Greenwich’s founding -the first observance since 1940 with 15,000 attending celebrations.
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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