Podcast

Grating the Nutmeg

Author: Connecticut Explored Magazine
Feed episode count: 241
Official site: http://gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com/podcast
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Summary

Connecticut is a small state with big stories. GTN episodes include top-flight historians, compelling first-person stories and new voices in Connecticut history. Executive Producers Mary Donohue, Walt Woodward, and Natalie Belanger look at the people and places that have made a difference in CT history. New episodes every two weeks. A joint production of Connecticut Explored magazine and the CT State Historian Emeritus.

Episodes

Jul 3, 2026 · not_requested

233. Rough Justice for Connecticut State Hero Nathan Hale (10th Anniversary Encore Release)

Duration seconds: 1746
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Jun 15, 2026 · not_requested

232. Guides for Black Travelers: New London's Green Book Sites

Duration seconds: 2077
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Jun 1, 2026 · not_requested

231. John Hooker: Hartford's Abolitionist Lawyer

Duration seconds: 1650
Source: https://gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com/231-john-hooker-hartfords-abolitionist-lawyer

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May 15, 2026 · not_requested

230. Pursuing Happiness: New Horizons Village

Duration seconds: 1404
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May 1, 2026 · not_requested

229. Irish Immigration in Art from the Fairfield Great Hunger Museum at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum

Duration seconds: 1936
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Apr 15, 2026 · not_requested

228. Sports Heaven: The Birth of ESPN in Bristol, Connecticut

Duration seconds: 1781
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Apr 1, 2026 · not_requested

227. Pioneering Woman Sculptor Evelyn Beatrice Longman

Duration seconds: 2158
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Mar 15, 2026 · not_requested

226. Abby (and Julia) Smith and Their Cows

Duration seconds: 1424
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Feb 15, 2026 · not_requested

225. On Trial: Alfred Marder and Catherine Roraback - A Communist's Arrest in 1950's McCarthy-era New Haven (10th Anniversary Encore Release)

Duration seconds: 3379
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Jan 30, 2026 · not_requested

224. Scholar, Activist, Trailblazer: The Enduring Legacy of Dr. Lorenzo Greene

Duration seconds: 1665
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Jan 14, 2026 · not_requested

223. The 'Great Temperance Times' in Nineteenth-Century Black Connecticut

Duration seconds: 2507
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Dec 1, 2025 · not_requested

222. Cabbage Patch Kids and West Hartford's Toymaker Coleco

Duration seconds: 1343
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Nov 14, 2025 · not_requested

221. New Haven's Lt. Augusto Rodríguez, First Civil War Soldier from Puerto Rico

Duration seconds: 1512
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Oct 31, 2025 · not_requested

220. Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Plant: The Promise and Peril of Nuclear Energy

Duration seconds: 1758
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Oct 15, 2025 · not_requested

219. Transgender History and Connecticut Transgender Pioneer Dr. Alan L. Hart

Duration seconds: 3327
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Oct 1, 2025 · not_requested

218. Connecticut in the Industrial Revolution: Making Buttons in Cheshire

Duration seconds: 2566
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Sep 14, 2025 · not_requested

217. The Smith Family of Glastonbury: Hannah and Her Daughters

Duration seconds: 2025
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Sep 1, 2025 · not_requested

216. Brewing Community: Labor, Alcohol, and Unrest in Industrial New Britain

Duration seconds: 1733
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Aug 15, 2025 · not_requested

215. Connecticut's Wild Visionary: Children's Author Maurice Sendak

Duration seconds: 3151
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Aug 1, 2025 · not_requested

214. Monstrous: The Business of Whaling

Duration seconds: 2517
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Jul 15, 2025 · not_requested

213. When the Continental Army Camped in Connecticut

Duration seconds: 2082
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Jul 1, 2025 · not_requested

212. Ingredients for Revolution: Feminist Restaurants featuring Bloodroot Restaurant

Duration seconds: 2526
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Jun 15, 2025 · not_requested

211. Leviathan: New Englanders and the History of Whaling

Duration seconds: 3052
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Jun 1, 2025 · not_requested

210. The Mattatuck Museum: Waterbury and Summer Leisure

Duration seconds: 2396
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May 15, 2025 · not_requested

209. Mary Hall and the Good Will Club

Duration seconds: 1203
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