{"podcast":{"title":"Grating the Nutmeg","slug":"grating-the-nutmeg-500787","podcast_index_feed_id":500787,"rss_url":"https://gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com/podcast","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/c/0/e/1/c0e1a7b91ce5eefbe5bbc093207a2619/GTN_LOGO_2_w_white_edges_SQUARE_2.png","author":"Connecticut Explored Magazine","episode_count":241,"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-04T18:20:54.669697+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grating-the-nutmeg-500787"},"episode":{"title":"210.  The Mattatuck Museum: Waterbury and Summer Leisure","slug":"210-the-mattatuck-museum-waterbury-and-summer-leisure","published_at":"2025-06-01T02:12:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grating-the-nutmeg-500787/210-the-mattatuck-museum-waterbury-and-summer-leisure","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grating-the-nutmeg-500787","url":"https://gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com/210-the-mattatuck-museum-waterbury-and-summer-leisure","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/gratingthenutmeg/GTN_210_Mattatuck_FINAL_UPLOAD_1_MP3.mp3?dest-id=293199","summary":"In this episode, host Mary Donohue visits the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, a place that includes stellar architecture, art by some of the most renowned artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and an exhibition that tells the story of Waterbury's rise as a manufacturing powerhouse. The Mattatuck Museum is an art and regional history museum on the Green in downtown Waterbury, that started out as a historical society in 1877. Our guest is Rebecca Lo Presti, Assistant Curator. She served as the curator for \" The Art of Leisure\" an exhibit that is up now until June 15 , 2025. From pencil sketches of working-class families picnicking to paintings done by Americans on the European Grand Tour, the exhibit shows how artists depicted recreation, relaxation, and travel in their work. They also talk about what else you'll see at museum when you visit including the artwork of American masters associated with Connecticut such as Anni Albers, Alexander Calder and Frederic Church. And, on the quirkier side, the museum is also home to a button gallery displaying 10,000 buttons -miniature works of art collected from around the globe. A big thanks to Becca Lo Presti, Asst. Curator and Tanya Labeck, Marketing & Media Coordinator at the Mattatuck Museum. Visit the museum before June 15 th to see the Art of Leisure, but remember that any time is a good time to go! You'll always find something interesting, beautiful or inspiring on display. Find out more at their website at mattmuseum.org/ To learn more about Waterbury's industrial history, go to the Connecticut Explored website at ctexplored.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------- Like Grating the Nutmeg? Want to support it? Make a donation ! 100% of the funds from your donation go directly to the produc…","meta_description":"In this episode, host Mary Donohue visits the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, a place that includes stellar architecture, art by some of the most renowned…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2396,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/grating-the-nutmeg-500787/episodes/210-the-mattatuck-museum-waterbury-and-summer-leisure/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grating-the-nutmeg-500787/210-the-mattatuck-museum-waterbury-and-summer-leisure.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}