Happy Hanukkah!
Hanukkah is a very special annual festival, one of the most important and anticipated holy days in the Jewish faith. This eight-day celebration traces its history to a miracle that took place around 200 B.C.
As our days become shorter, what a delight it is to see the lighting of menorah candles, and to spend time with loved ones and friends.
May God bless you and give you all the happiness in this world. I wish you a festive season filled with an abundance of joy, happy moments, good health and prosperity. May these eight days be your best days, and many more to come!
What's On Today's Show?
My guest on Talk of the Town is author Jack T. Scully. We’ll be discussing his new book, Mianus Village.
Having won the war in 1945, millions of “Greatest Generation” GIs came marching home. Of immediate concern: education, jobs, and shelter. The GI Bill helped meet those challenges with free tuition, business loans, and affordable housing.
In Riverside Connecticut, the government built 40 matchbox houses beside the Mianus River for veterans and their families.
Author Jack T. Scully and more than a hundred “Baby Boomer” kids soon called the village and its ‘tinsel-glistening river’ home. It is the setting for this loosely autobiographical tale of self-discovery in an era of simplicity and peace.
“The poetry here is lucid and straightforward, and the spirit of the book is that of recalling the "forgotten debris of forgotten years,” says David Huddle, emeritus professor, University of Vermont. “A reader feels refreshed and grateful for what Jack Scully has accomplished in these pages.”
Great news from the Friends of the Old Burying Ground at Byram Shore Road! At last, as reported by Greenwich Time’s Robert Marchant, Greenwich’s African American burial ground is getting the restoration and attention it deserves.
Looking at the latest work ongoing on the Old Byram cemetery and the old African American burying ground, Alex Popp -who has led efforts to have it restored, said, “It’s good to see.”
Christmas is coming! You’ll hear about the singing of Christmas carol in the Franklin Simon department store on West Putnam Avenue -now the home of Greenwich Library. The year? 1940.
The town’s first community Christmas tree was made possible by the Boy Scouts of Greenwich in 1914.
A century ago in 1921, several Byram boys were in rowboats, ending up being caught in a heavy gale storm resulting in being stranded on Calves Island.
Has your chauffeur ever told you to go to Hell? Me, either, but in 1919 one driving on Mason Street allegedly told a highway improvement superintendent to go to the hottest of hot places. Yes, the matter went to court and you’ll learn what happened.
In 1945, a World War I veteran in Byram Hill thought he was under attack, not taking any chances during an alleged air raid that did not quite turn out what it was thought to be.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls around the world! Stay where you are! We’ll have all this, news of public events and lots more as today’s show unfolds.
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