Grating the Nutmeg
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We’re the podcast of Connecticut history! A production of #ConnecticutExplored magazine.
New GTN! Listen: ctexplored.org/colecopodcpd/
Cabbage Patch Kids set every toy industry sales record for three years running from 1983-86. How did a Connecticut company produce the hottest toy of the 1980s - and then go broke? #podcast #retro #toys #cabbagepatch
Cabbage Patch Kids set every toy industry sales record for three years running from 1983-86. How did a Connecticut company produce the hottest toy of the 1980s - and then go broke? #podcast #retro #toys #cabbagepatch
December 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
New GTN! Listen: ctexplored.org/colecopodcpd/
Cabbage Patch Kids set every toy industry sales record for three years running from 1983-86. How did a Connecticut company produce the hottest toy of the 1980s - and then go broke? #podcast #retro #toys #cabbagepatch
Cabbage Patch Kids set every toy industry sales record for three years running from 1983-86. How did a Connecticut company produce the hottest toy of the 1980s - and then go broke? #podcast #retro #toys #cabbagepatch
In our latest GTN, we uncover the story of Dr. Alan L. Hart, a transgender medical doctor working on the forefront of an urgent public health crisis, tuberculosis, in Connecticut. Our guest is Dr. Susan Stryker.
#Listen: ctexplored.org/thstryhartpod/ & all apps 🎧 #ct #history #pride #podcast
#Listen: ctexplored.org/thstryhartpod/ & all apps 🎧 #ct #history #pride #podcast
October 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Button production in #Cheshire was part of CT’s pioneering role in the precision manufacturing revolution of the nineteenth century. We find out more with our guests Elizabeth Fox and Agnes Wnuk of Ball & Socket Arts.
Listen: ctexplored.org/buttonsincheshirepod/
Listen: ctexplored.org/buttonsincheshirepod/
October 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Button production in #Cheshire was part of CT’s pioneering role in the precision manufacturing revolution of the nineteenth century. We find out more with our guests Elizabeth Fox and Agnes Wnuk of Ball & Socket Arts.
Listen: ctexplored.org/buttonsincheshirepod/
Listen: ctexplored.org/buttonsincheshirepod/
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/
Listen: ctexplored.org/hannahsmithpod/
September 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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/
Listen: ctexplored.org/hannahsmithpod/
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/
August 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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/
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/
August 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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/
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
August 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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
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/
July 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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/
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
July 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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