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Check out this book from author Will McLean Greeley!

A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator Geroge P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

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Brand new Grating the Nutmeg Podcast episode out today!
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What did Hartford’s most famous resident of the Gilded Age, Mark Twain, think about Spiritualism and other alternative modes of healing and perception? And what about the ghosts seen in the Twain House? Whether you believe in the afterlife, don’t believe in it at all, or just want to come to your own conclusions, this is an episode for you!

Guests are Mallory Howard, Assistant Curator at The Mark Twain House & Museum and Dr. Jason Scappaticci, historian and Associate Dean of Student Affairs at CT State Capital in Hartford. #new #history #podcast ...
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Did you catch Joseph McGill, Jr.'s program yesterday at Connecticut's Old State House? We loved having him and Nicole Thomas of The Hempsted Houses on our podcast last month!

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Today is Museum Store Sunday! Shop local at the Greenwich Historical Society Museum Store. 🛍 All purchases of $50 or more, made today, will receive one of our exclusive ornaments for FREE! Take advantage and get started on your holiday gift shopping.

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Thanks for sharing this CT Explored story!What is a Puritan…and why didn’t they stay in Massachusetts?
Originally published on CT Explored, learn from the CT State Historian Emeritus, Walt Woodward, about who the Puritans were and how they ended up in CT: connecticuthistory.org/whats-a-puritan-and-why-didnt-they-stay-in-massachusetts/

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They were pushy ignorant assholes who wanted to impose their religious beliefs on us all. Not unlike republicans of today.
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Thinking about tomorrow's feast? Take a listen to this GTN podcast about hearth cooking!
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Grating the Nutmeg: 91. Tom Linskey's Hearth-Cooked Feast
Twice a year, restoration carpenter Tom Linsky and his wife Sally Irons host a heart-cooked colonial feast in their historic 18th century Portland home, as a benefit for their favorite charities. For those events Chef Tom Linskey spends an entire week prepping, preparing, and cooking a totally heart...
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Holiday events coming up!Our 49th annual Festival of Trees & Traditions is fast approaching!

Each year, community members, artists, and volunteers decorate holiday trees and wreaths, turning the galleries into a winter wonderland. All items are for sale, bring home the holiday cheer or donate your purchase to a local charity.

Hours: November 30-December 10
Noon-5pm, daily (closed Monday–Wednesday)
Open until 7pm on Friday, December 1 & Thursday, December 7

Visit thewadsworth.org/festivaloftrees for the schedule of entertainment.

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The Festival of Trees is a wonderful Hartford treasure. My choirs performed for over 34 years!
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We’re counting down until Friday when we invite you to join us for Art After Dark! Be a part of this unique opportunity to explore the Museum’s current exhibitions while a live DJ provides the evening’s soundtrack. If that isn’t enough to get you excited, the evening will also include:

🎨 Open galleries with drop-in style art activities
🖼️ Art trivia hunt with prizes
📍Raffle drawing with gifts from local businesses
🍕Food for purchase from Woodfellas Pizza Truck
🏛️ Plus, see the variety of exhibitions on view!

Date: Nov. 17
Time: 6 – 9 pm
Cost: $25 (includes two drink tickets & art materials)

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Natalie Belanger of the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History sits down with acclaimed crime writer M. William Phelps to get to the bottom of a notorious early 20th century Connecticut murder story.

In the 1910s, Amy Archer Gilligan operated an innovative business in Windsor: a convalescent home for the ill and elderly. Her benevolent facade, however, hid a deadly purpose: a business plan that depended on constant inmate turnover, aided by arsenic poisoning. You'll hear all about how the case was broken by a neighbor who happened to write for the Hartford Courant, in a story involving midnight graveyard autopsies, poisoned lemonade, a shady doctor, and the birth of the Connecticut State Police.

And oh yeah, the story got turned into a blockbuster Broadway comedy and a 1944 movie starring Cary Grant!

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The book was fantastic!!!
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Arsenic and Old Lace. Cary Grant and Josephine Hull!
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