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Kathy Hermes @ctexplored.bsky.social · 2d

Our state’s history is fascinating! Ask the more than 2000 listeners who download episodes each month! Let’s keep GTN free. Check out our online auction and help us raise $7500 to keep the podcast accessible to all.
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Grating the Nutmeg @gratingthenutmeg.bsky.social · 2d

Treat yourself to something beautiful and help a great cause in our Grating the Nutmeg Podcast online benefit auction!

Bid here on this bedazzling piece from Beckers Diamonds and Fine Jewelry, West Hartford Center:
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Grating the Nutmeg @gratingthenutmeg.bsky.social · 5d

We love telling the stories of Connecticut’s past on GTN! We need your support - bid on some items in our annual online auction!

Bids are now live on these two pieces of stunning handmade pottery by Gary Red Oak O'Neil.

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Grating the Nutmeg @gratingthenutmeg.bsky.social · 11d

In our latest GTN, we chat with Leonard Raybon, who encountered two journals and other writings by Hannah Hadassah Hickok, the matriarch of the non-conformist Smith Family of #Glastonbury - and then composed an original mini-musical based on them!

Listen: ctexplored.org/hannahsmithpod/

Grating the Nutmeg @gratingthenutmeg.bsky.social · 11d

Support Grating the Nutmeg Podcast in our second annual online benefit auction and treat yourself and a friend to a show at award-winning professional theater Playhouse on Park Theatre in #WestHartford!

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Grating the Nutmeg @gratingthenutmeg.bsky.social · 16d

Our second annual GTN online benefit auction is LIVE! Support the largest fundraiser of the year for our award-winning CT history podcast.

Show your love of CT history with this bevy of beauties from #Connecticut Explored!

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Grating the Nutmeg @gratingthenutmeg.bsky.social · 16d

Support us in our second annual online benefit auction! The auction is the largest fundraiser of the year for our award-winning CT history podcast.

Win this beautiful package from #LitchfieldDistillery now!

Bid: secure.qgiv.com/event/connecticutexploredincauction/item/498268

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Grating the Nutmeg @gratingthenutmeg.bsky.social · 25d

In this brand new episode of #GTN, Natalie Belanger tells us about how two journals kept by a Revolutionary War-era girl in the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History’s collection have inspired an exciting original work of music.

Listen: ctexplored.org/hannahsmithpod/

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Grating the Nutmeg @gratingthenutmeg.bsky.social · 25d

In this brand new episode of #GTN, Natalie Belanger tells us about how two journals kept by a Revolutionary War-era girl in the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History’s collection have inspired an exciting original work of music.

Listen: ctexplored.org/hannahsmithpod/

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Grating the Nutmeg @gratingthenutmeg.bsky.social · Sep 1

Celebrate #LaborDay with a brand new #GTN!
Immigrants from Lithuania who made their way to New Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century found work in the city’s factories, but major upheavals in American society were happening at the time…
Listen: www.ctexplored.org/brewingcommunitypod/

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Grating the Nutmeg @gratingthenutmeg.bsky.social · Aug 26

In our latest #GTN, we dive into the life of artist and author Maurice Sendak, winner of the 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are, who lived in #Ridgefield with his partner Dr. Eugene Glynn for over 50 years. Listen: www.ctexplored.org/sendakpod/

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Grating the Nutmeg @gratingthenutmeg.bsky.social · Aug 26

In our latest Grating the Nutmeg Podcast, we dive into the life of artist and author Maurice Sendak, winner of the 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are, who lived in #Ridgefield with his partner Dr. Eugene Glynn for over 50 years. Listen: www.ctexplored.org/sendakpod/

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Grating the Nutmeg @gratingthenutmeg.bsky.social · Aug 26

In our latest Grating the Nutmeg Podcast, we dive into the life of artist and author Maurice Sendak, winner of the 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are, who lived in #Ridgefield with his partner Dr. Eugene Glynn for over 50 years. Listen: www.ctexplored.org/sendakpod/

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Grating the Nutmeg @gratingthenutmeg.bsky.social · Aug 15

New Episode! www.ctexplored.org/sendakpod/

Artist / author Maurice Sendak was able to achieve significant and enduring success in art and children’s literature during his lifetime. We chat with Dr. Golan Moskowitz, author of Wild Visionary, Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context, published in 2021.

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Grating the Nutmeg @gratingthenutmeg.bsky.social · Aug 15

New Episode! www.ctexplored.org/sendakpod/

Artist / author Maurice Sendak was able to achieve significant and enduring success in art and children’s literature during his lifetime. We chat with Dr. Golan Moskowitz, author of Wild Visionary, Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context, published in 2021.

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Grating the Nutmeg @gratingthenutmeg.bsky.social · Aug 14

Whaling was a brutal trade, but it was also big business for #Connecticut and her sister New England states. In our latest GTN, we’ll visit Mystic Seaport Museum’s new exhibition on whaling with curator Mike Dyer. Listen: www.ctexplored.org/monstrouswhalingpod/ #history #whaling #Manufacturing #ct

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Grating the Nutmeg @gratingthenutmeg.bsky.social · Aug 1

New Episode!
Whaling was big business for #Connecticut and her sister New England states.

In this episode, we’ll visit Mystic Seaport Museum’s new exhibition “Monstrous: Whaling and Its Colossal Impact” with curator Mike Dyer.

Listen: www.ctexplored.org/monstrouswhalingpod/

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Grating the Nutmeg @gratingthenutmeg.bsky.social · Jul 30

In our latest Grating the Nutmeg Podcast, Dr. Kathy Hermes chats with Ellery Leary, the official park historian of Putnam Memorial State Park, to discuss the Redding Encampment of the Revolutionary War and more! Listen: ctexplored.org/contarmycampedpod/

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Grating the Nutmeg @gratingthenutmeg.bsky.social · Jul 25

Listen to #GTN for amazing places to go this summer!

In this episode, we discover more about one of the most beautiful places to visit in Connecticut - the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme.

Listen: gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com/107-miss-florences-boardinghouse-and-american-impressionism

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Grating the Nutmeg @gratingthenutmeg.bsky.social · Jul 18

In this episode of #GTN, Dr. Alex Ketchum reveals the history of women-owned restaurants in the 1970s and 1980s that had a feminist mission. Stream: ctexplored.org/ingforrevpod/ #ct #history #podcast #nowstreaming #nowplaying #bridgeport

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Grating the Nutmeg @gratingthenutmeg.bsky.social · Jul 18

In this episode of #GTN, Dr. Alex Ketchum reveals the history of women-owned restaurants in the 1970s and 1980s that had a feminist mission. Stream: ctexplored.org/ingforrevpod/ #ct #history #podcast #nowstreaming #nowplaying #bridgeport

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Grating the Nutmeg @gratingthenutmeg.bsky.social · Jul 15

Brand New Episode!

Our publisher Dr. Kathy Hermes chats with Ellery Leary, the official park historian of Putnam Memorial State Park, to discuss the Redding Encampment of the Revolutionary War and the importance of the Park today as a historical site.

Listen: ctexplored.org/contarmycampedpod/

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Grating the Nutmeg @gratingthenutmeg.bsky.social · Jul 1

New Episode out now! Dr. Alex Ketchum reveals the history of women-owned restaurants in the 1970s and 1980s that had a feminist mission.

Stream: ctexplored.org/ingforrevpod/

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Grating the Nutmeg @gratingthenutmeg.bsky.social · Jul 12

Discover places to go this summer with #GTN!

How did Elizabeth Park become the public park it is today? Mary Donohue interviews Elizabeth Park’s Rosarian Stephen Scanniello about all things roses.

Listen: gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com/115-americas-first-public-rose-garden-elizabeth-park

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Grating the Nutmeg @gratingthenutmeg.bsky.social · Jul 1

New Episode out now! Dr. Alex Ketchum reveals the history of women-owned restaurants in the 1970s and 1980s that had a feminist mission.

Stream: ctexplored.org/ingforrevpod/

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