The Greenwich, A Town for All Seasons Show with Jeffrey Bingham Mead

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This podcast is made possible by Alexander Affiliates, Eastern Neurologic Services, Kevin M. J. O'Connor of Jeffrey Matthews Wealth Management, and listeners like you everywhere on the Atlantic Learning Consortium Network!

On our July shows, we pleased to promote Michael Helupka Tree Service, LLC here in Greenwich. I was impressed and a satisfied customer -and you will be, too. Call 203.622.8737.

Welcome to the 25th of July 2023 show. 

On Greenwich in the Gilded Age, we return for an encore visit to Glen Airlie on Byram Shore, brought to you on today's show thanks to The Great Estates Greenwich, Connecticut 1880-1929 by The Junior League of Greenwich. 

But there's more. You learn about Addison Hanan and his family, hailing from Narragansett's society circles who came to purchase this estate. 

On Greenwich Life As It is-And Was, Erwin Edwards wrote, "Grass Island and what can be made of it, has been talked of and discussed for a long time, and thus it happens that it is not a new subject of conversation or controversy."

A century ago, Niel Morrow Ladd was appointed chairman of a committee of the Greenwich Chamber of Commerce to study Greenwich's "unsightly harbor" with the goal of improving it "in a fair way." 

In late July, 1908, Commodore E.C. Benedict's steam yacht Oneida was one of the fleet of boats to traverse the newly-opened Cape Cod Canal. 

It was reported a century ago, on July 27, 1923, that Judge Frederick A. Hubbard commented that "Miss Smith," of Stamford -the granddaughter of Captain Charles Smith of the ill-fated steamboat Seawanaka- was "twirling the spokes of the steering wheel" of the ferry boat Greenwich on the waters of Long Island Sound. 

Don't forget Crimes and Misdemeanors, our featured crime segment in our continuous observance of the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Greenwich Police Department (GPD).

There’s lots to see, to do, and to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich.

You’ve come to the right place to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut, one of America's most interesting and extraordinary communities.  

We’ll have all this -and more- as our history continues to unfold. 

I'm Jeffrey Bingham Mead, your host. Thank you for listening to the weekly podcast released on Tuesdays. 

Contact me and join our growing number of listeners anytime via email at [email protected]. 

Show podcast episodes are posted weekly on various social media platforms. Click this link to the show's Facebook site. 

I also encourage you to like and visit the group You Know You're From Greenwich Ct If, where links to the show are posted weekly, too. 

Mark your calendars. The next show is scheduled for Tuesday, the 1st of August, 2023. 

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This podcast is made possible by Alexander Affiliates, Eastern Neurologic Services, Kevin M. J. O'Connor of Jeffrey Matthews Wealth Management, and listeners like you everywhere on the Atlantic Learning Consortium Network!

On our July shows, we pleased to promote Michael Helupka Tree Service, LLC here in Greenwich. I was impressed and a satisfied customer -and you will be, too. Call 203.622.8737.

Happy Founders Day -Greenwich is 383 years strong in 2023! You’ll hear this year's Town of Greenwich official proclamation. 

On Talk of the Town, you’ll hear an encore conversation I had in 2018 with Missy Wolfe, considered by many to be Greenwich’s leading authority on the town’s first century starting in 1640. 

Wolfe is the author of Hidden History of Colonial Greenwich. Her study of the life of Greenwich founder Elizabeth Winthrop Feake Hallett, Insubordinate Spirit: A True Story of Life and Loss in Earliest America, won the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence. 

On Greenwich in the Gilded Age, our visit will take us to Parke Cottage on Otter Rock Drive in Belle Haven -made possible on today's show by Victorian Summer: The Historic Houses of Belle Haven Park, Greenwich, Connecticut by Matt Bernard. 

It is available for purchase at the Greenwich Historical Society's Museum Store, or copies may be borrowed through the Greenwich Library. It is richly illustrated, revealing a wealth of detailed history. I strongly recommend it. 

On Greenwich Life: As It Is-And Was, Erwin Edwards penned a piece about the ‘Pickwick Corners’ building at the top of Greenwich Avenue constructed by Isaac Lewis Mead. The building -at the time of Edwards’ article- was a candy store and factory.

On Crimes and Misdemeanors, our featured crime history includes ‘Ladies in a Fight’ on Northfield Street area -and a poem composed by a Greenwich resident in the Bridgeport Jail a century ago. (See below)

And in other historical news, you'll hear about Boy Scout Troop #4 of North Greenwich who in 1923 “had an unusual outing in New York last week under the leadership of the Scoutmaster." 

It was announced in Greenwich a century ago that the Rev. Anne C. Torrey was the first ordained female pastor in Fairfield County, Connecticut -and one of the very few in the New England states. 

The first instance of sky-writing happened on August 9, 1923 for the Lucky Strike brand of cigarettes and tobacco.

In 1912, Greenwich families were treated to an advice column on how to amuse children.

In 1956, Greenwich’s people became “whisker conscious” with the upcoming 216th aniversary of Greenwich’s founding -the first observance since 1940 with 15,000 attending celebrations. 

There’s lots to see, to do, and to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich.

You’ve come to the right place to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut, one of America's most interesting and extraordinary communities.  

We’ll have all this -and more- as our history continues to unfold. 

I'm Jeffrey Bingham Mead, your host. Thank you for listening to the weekly podcast released on Tuesdays. 

Contact me and join our growing number of listeners anytime via email at [email protected]. 

Show podcast episodes are posted weekly on various social media platforms. Click this link to the show's Facebook site. 

I also encourage you to like and visit the group You Know You're From Greenwich Ct If, where links to the show are posted weekly, too. 

Mark your calendars. The next show is scheduled for Tuesday, the 25th of July, 2023. 

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We’ll begin today’s show with an encore conversation from 2018 on Talk of the Town. Mead-descendant Norm Davis contacted your host with news of a brownstone grave marker for Rachel Mead, who died in 1799, in the basement of his parent’s home in Port Chester, New York. 

It makes for quite an interesting and entertaining story -and yes, her stone was repatriated to its proper location in Greenwich. 

On Greenwich in the Gilded Age, our visit will take us to Day Estate in Belle Haven -made possible on today's show by Victorian Summer: The Historic Houses of Belle Haven Park, Greenwich, Connecticut by Matt Bernard. 

It is available for purchase at the Greenwich Historical Society's Museum Store, or copies may be borrowed through the Greenwich Library. It is richly illustrated, revealing a wealth of detailed history. I strongly recommend it. 

We continue to observe the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Greenwich Police Department on Crimes and Misdemeanors. On today’s show you’ll learn of Prohibition-era car chases and injured “motor-cops.” 

Greenwich Before 2000 was published as an updated, revised edition of another Greenwich history book, Before and After 1776: A Chronology of the Town of Greenwich. On today's show, we'll look back at Years 1800-1808.

And in other historical news, you'll hear about a “chilling experience” featuring Mrs. Percy Rockefeller, her children and friends in Wyoming. They found themselves stuck in a snowstorm while ascending Mount Washburn -in July.  

The Nelson Bush House was at one time in the area we know today as Belle Haven. It was moved to where it sits at 186 Hamilton Avenue. 

On Greenwich Life: As It Is-And Was, Lucien Edwards penned a piece about Greenwich’s summer boarders. 

Summer in Greenwich often brings news of road repairs and repaving -often causing headaches for motor vehicle drivers. Think this is anything news? The situation in Greenwich was hardly different in July, 1923 -and you’ll hear why. 

There’s lots to see, to do, and to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich.

You’ve come to the right place to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut, one of America's most interesting and extraordinary communities.  

We’ll have all this -and more- as our history continues to unfold. 

I'm Jeffrey Bingham Mead, your host. Thank you for listening to the weekly podcast released on Tuesdays. 

Contact me and join our growing number of listeners anytime via email at [email protected]. 

Show podcast episodes are posted weekly on various social media platforms. Click this link to the show's Facebook site. 

I also encourage you to like and visit the group You Know You're From Greenwich Ct If, where links to the show are posted weekly, too. 

Mark your calendars. The next show is scheduled for Greenwich Founders Day, Tuesday, the 18th of July, 2023. 

Happy American Independence Day! Let us thank those throughout our nation's 247-year history who fought for our freedoms. 

Stand tall and proud! May your hearts be filled with pride and patriotism for this great nation. 

On Greenwich in the Gilded Age, our visit will take us to Lafayette Cottage in Belle Haven -made possible on today's show by Victorian Summer: The Historic Houses of Belle Haven Park, Greenwich, Connecticut by Matt Bernard. 

It is available for purchase at the Greenwich Historical Society's Museum Store, or copies may be borrowed through the Greenwich Library. It is richly illustrated, revealing a wealth of detailed history. I strongly recommend it. 

We continue to observe the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Greenwich Police Department on Crimes and Misdemeanors. 

Greenwich Before 2000 was published as an updated, revised edition of another Greenwich history book, Before and After 1776: A Chronology of the Town of Greenwich. On today's show, we'll look back at Years 1782-1786.

And in other historical news, you'll hear more about how the people of Greenwich observed the Fourth of July in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 

There were reports in 1900 that William Rockefeller was personally involved in the building of a then-new railroad station in Greenwich. But was it fake news? 

As schools are out for the summer, there was discussion and some debate about whether or not to have school vacations. 

Back in 1905, it was possible to ride trolleys from New York to Greenwich. It was a "lovely trolley ride "in charming Greenwich, Connecticut." 

I'll also share an account of a Revolutionary War-era raid on a Mead Family farm in North Greenwich, one that resulted in the death of young Obadiah Mead. 

There’s lots to see, to do, and to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich.

You’ve come to the right place to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut, one of America's most interesting and extraordinary communities.  

We’ll have all this -and more- as our history continues to unfold. 

I'm Jeffrey Bingham Mead, your host. Thank you for listening to the weekly podcast released on Tuesdays. 

Contact me and join our growing number of listeners anytime via email at [email protected]. 

Show podcast episodes are posted weekly on various social media platforms. Click this link to the show's Facebook site. 

I also encourage you to like and visit the group You Know You're From Greenwich Ct If, where links to the show are posted weekly, too. 

Mark your calendars. The next show is scheduled for Tuesday, the11th of July, 2023. 

It's the 27th of June, 2023 show! Welcome! 

On Greenwich in the Gilded Age, our visit will take us to McCord Cottage in Belle Haven Park -made possible on today's show by Victorian Summer: The Historic Houses of Belle Haven Park, Greenwich, Connecticut by Matt Bernard. 

It is available for purchase at the Greenwich Historical Society's Museum Store, or copies may be borrowed through the Greenwich Library. It is richly illustrated, revealing a wealth of detailed history. I strongly recommend it. 

Judge Frederick A. Hubbard returns! On The Judge's Corner, "Ezekiel Lemondale" in April, 1929 asks about whether or not to have apartment buildings in Greenwich, plus increases in the auto business. 

We continue to observe the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Greenwich Police Department on Crimes and Misdemeanors. 

Greenwich Before 2000 was published as an updated, revised edition of another Greenwich history book, Before and After 1776: The Comprehensive Chronology of the Town of Greenwich. On today's show, we'll look back at Years 1775-1777.

And in other historical news, you'll hear more about how the people of Greenwich observed the Fourth of July as we countdown to Independence Day 2023. 

In June, 1914, a group of singers from Hampton Institute (now Hampton University in Virginia) performed for the people of Greenwich at Rosemary Hall. 

That same month, bankers from the Greenwich Trust Company dined at Island Beach. 

In 1906, Dr. W. L. Griswold set out from Greenwich to South Dakota to secure a divorce. "There is hardly a more popular or highly esteemed professional man in town than the doctor, and everyone's good wishes go with him on his journey." 

Warnings a century ago of "another ice age" were shared -and referred to the Greenwich Chamber of Commerce. 

Christ Church Greenwich was the setting for one of Greenwich society's "brilliant"weddings when Miss Ann Gallatin Seton -daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton- was married to Hamilton Cottier -the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo E. Cottier of Scarsdale, New York. 

There is one constant throughout the history of Greenwich, Connecticut: everyone has an opinion. A century ago, Niel Morrow Ladd penned an open letter in which he "gives his ideas on what's the matter with Greenwich." You'll hear his letter. 

There’s lots to see, to do, and to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich.

You’ve come to the right place to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut, one of America's most interesting and extraordinary communities.  

We’ll have all this -and more- as our history continues to unfold. 

I'm Jeffrey Bingham Mead, your host. Thank you for listening to the weekly podcast released on Tuesdays. 

Contact me and join our growing number of listeners anytime via email at [email protected]. 

Show podcast episodes are posted weekly on various social media platforms. Click this link to the show's Facebook site. 

I also encourage you to like and visit the group You Know You're From Greenwich Ct If, where links to the show are posted weekly, too. 

Mark your calendars. The next show is scheduled for Tuesday, the 4th of July, 2023. 

It's the 20th of June, 2023 show! Welcome! 

On Greenwich in the Gilded Age, our visit will take us to Hutchins Cottage in Belle Haven Park -made possible on today's show by Victorian Summer: The Historic Houses of Belle Haven Park, Greenwich, Connecticut by Matt Bernard. 

It is available for purchase at the Greenwich Historical Society's Museum Store, or copies may be borrowed through the Greenwich Library. It is richly illustrated, revealing a wealth of detailed history. I strongly recommend it. 

On Greenwich Life As It Is-And Was, Columnist Lucien B. Edwards Shared with his readers a history of what was once the Borough of Greenwich.

We continue to observe the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Greenwich Police Department on Crimes and Misdemeanors. 

Greenwich Before 2000 was published as an updated, revised edition of another Greenwich history book, Before and After 1776: The Comprehensive Chronology of the Town of Greenwich. On today's show, we'll look back at Years 1766-1774.

And in other historical news, you'll hear about how the people of Greenwich observed the Fourth of July as we countdown to Independence Day. W.J. Johnson -the publisher of the New York Times- was on a -round-the-world journey that took him to Japan, and his encounter with Japanese cuisine and geishas. 

You'll also learn about the 25th anniversary of the Little Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1907; how Solomon H. Green ("colored") of Round Hill Road got lost and was found in the Springdale section of Stamford. In 1922, the people of Greenwich learned about the travels of Douglas Scott, USN, that took him to Vesuvius and Pompeii. 

There’s lots to see, to do, and to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich.

You’ve come to the right place to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut, one of America's most interesting and extraordinary communities.  

We’ll have all this -and more- as our history continues to unfold. 

I'm Jeffrey Bingham Mead, your host. Thank you for listening to the weekly podcast released on Tuesdays. 

Contact me and join our growing number of listeners anytime via email at [email protected]. 

Show podcast episodes are posted weekly on various social media platforms. Click this link to the show's Facebook site. 

I also encourage you to like and visit the group You Know You're From Greenwich Ct If, where links to the show are posted weekly, too. 

Mark your calendars. The next show is scheduled for Tuesday, the 27th of June, 2023. 

It's the 13th of June, 2023 show! Welcome! 

On Greenwich in the Gilded Age, our visit will take us to Knob Hill Farm in Greenwich's Backcountry -made possible on today's show by The Great Estates Greenwich, Connecticut 1880-1930 by the Junior League of Greenwich. 

It is available for purchase at the Greenwich Historical Society's Museum Store, or copies may be borrowed through the Greenwich Library. It is richly illustrated, revealing a wealth of detailed history. I strongly recommend it. 

On Greenwich Life As It Is-And Was, Columnist Lucien B. Edwards took his readers on a journey in July, 1923: Favorite Sport of Years Ago: Prominent Amateur Fishermen.  

We continue to observe the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Greenwich Police Department on Crimes and Misdemeanors. 

Greenwich Before 2000 was published as an updated, revised edition of another Greenwich history book, Before and After 1776: The Comprehensive Chronology of the Town of Greenwich. On today's show, we'll look back at Year 1780.

And in other historical news, you'll hear about an ice cream strike in July, 1923. As we countdown to Independence Day on July 4, you'll hear about how Greenwich, Connecticut's people celebrated the the holiday. 

Judge Hubbard shared with his readers news and the history of an abduction case in Greenwich. Juneteenth -also known as Emancipation Day- will be observed for the first time ever next Monday on the 19th of June at Greenwich Town Hall. 

Father's Day is on June 18. Make the Greenwich Historical Society's Museum Store your destination for that special gift for him. Located at 47 Strickland Road in Cos Cob -and online- it's the discerning shopper's destination for unique Father's Day gifts. Enjoy convenient online shopping and pickup, ample free parking, complimentary gift wrapping -and coffee or tea on-the-house in the Artist's Cafe. 

There’s lots to see, to do, and to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich.

You’ve come to the right place to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut, one of America's most interesting and extraordinary communities.  

We’ll have all this -and more- as our history continues to unfold. 

I'm Jeffrey Bingham Mead, your host. Thank you for listening to the weekly podcast released on Tuesdays. 

Contact me and join our growing number of listeners anytime via email at [email protected]. 

Show podcast episodes are posted weekly on various social media platforms. Click this link to the show's Facebook site. 

I also encourage you to like and visit the group You Know You're From Greenwich Ct If, where links to the show are posted weekly, too. 

Mark your calendars. The next show is scheduled for Tuesday, the 20th of June, 2023. 

It's the 6th of June, 2023 show! Welcome! But first...

Step outside, look up in the sky and smell the air. 

On Wednesday morning the 7th, I awakened, took an early morning walk in the woods -discovering that wildfires in Eastern Canada were making a substantial impact on the entire northeastern region of the country. It's history in the making. We're all witnesses. 

Haze from those fires has descended like never before in our lifetimes. Please exercise caution. 

If you are susceptible to respiratory symptoms, please stay indoors with your windows closed and with air-conditioners on. Hopefully, conditions will return to seasonal norms quickly.

On Greenwich in the Gilded Age, our visit will take us to Italian Villa once located at 180 Otter Rock Drive at Belle Haven Place. Its owner was Stanley B. Tyler. The house was designed by Greenwich-native Frederick G.C. Smith, who also designed Greenwich Hospital on Parsonage Road. It was built in 1899 and demolished in 2017. This story was made possible by Matt Bernard, author of Victorian Summer: The Historic Houses of Belle Haven Park, Greenwich, Connecticut.

On History From Home, you'll learn about a summer 2022 excavation on the grounds of the Bush Holley House in Cos Cob by Dean McKenna. 

On Greenwich Life As It Is-And Was, Columnist Erwin Edwards took his readers in 1922 on a journey: Byram River: What It Was, What It Is Now, and Might Be.

There has rarely been a shortage of "serious matters" confronting the people of Greenwich, Connecticut. One of those was the tooting whistles of locomotive trains engaged by engineers who "seemed to take pleasure in keeping up as regularly and constantly as they passed through town."

We continue to observe the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Greenwich Police Department on Crimes and Misdemeanors. On today's show, we'll take you back over a century ago with the arson and assault case of James and Jennie Watt who had "woven themselves into a complicated story which might well furnish a plot for a Conan Doyle detective story." 

And in other historical news, you'll hear about the founding of the Edgewood Country Club, the purchase of Betts Academy by Brunswick School, and more as Greenwich, Connecticut's history continues to unfold. 

Father's Day is on June 18. Make the Greenwich Historical Society's Museum Store your destination for that special gift for him. Located at 47 Strickland Road in Cos Cob -and online- it's the discerning shopper's destination for unique Father's Day gifts. Enjoy convenient online shopping and pickup, ample free parking, complimentary gift wrapping -and coffee or tea on-the-house in the Artist's Cafe. 

There’s lots to see, to do, and to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich.

You’ve come to the right place to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut, one of America's most interesting and extraordinary communities.  

We’ll have all this -and more- as our history continues to unfold. 

I'm Jeffrey Bingham Mead, your host. Thank you for listening to the weekly podcast released on Tuesdays. 

Contact me and join our growing number of listeners anytime via email at [email protected]. 

Show podcast episodes are posted weekly on various social media platforms. Click this link to the show's Facebook site. 

I also encourage you to like and visit the group You Know You're From Greenwich Ct If, where links to the show are posted weekly, too. 

Mark your calendars. The next show is scheduled for Tuesday, the 13th of June, 2023. 

It's the 23rd of May, 2023 show! Welcome! On Greenwich in the Gilded Age -that time when the word "Greenwich" became synonymous with the word "millionaire" - we'll visit Round Island on the coast, made possible by the Junior League of Greenwich through its book The Great Estates: Greenwich, Connecticut, 1880-1930. 

On The Judge's Corner, Judge Frederick A. Hubbard -also known as Ezekiel Lemondale-  shares some yachting history in Greenwich. 

Memorial Day has been observed in Greenwich for generations. We'll explore how, focusing on various years in the late-19th and early 20th centuries. 

As we continue to mark the 125th anniversary of the establishment of the Greenwich Police Department, I’ll share news of burglaries, arrests and crimes committed and recorded from throughout Greenwich's history on Crimes and Misdemeanors.

You'll also hear about Nero the Lion, who broke loose at Washburn's Circus in downtown Greenwich in 1908; a street fair a century ago benefiting the Greenwich Hospital, the Emily Bruce Shelter and the East Port Chester (Byram) Nursery; how north Judge Hubbard and Greenwich-based Undertaker Fred D. Knapp became became "movie matinee idols" this week a century ago, thanks to the Bald Head Club of America and their appearance on the silver screens across the nation in 1923, and more. 

Father's Day is on June 18. Make the Greenwich Historical Society's Museum Store your destination for that special gift for him. Located at 47 Strickland Road in Cos Cob -and online- it's the discerning shopper's destination for unique Father's Day gifts. Enjoy convenient online shopping and pickup, ample free parking, complimentary gift wrapping -and coffee or tea on-the-house in the Artist's Cafe. 

There’s lots to see, to do, and to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich.

You’ve come to the right place to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut, one of America's most interesting and extraordinary communities.  

We’ll have all this -and more- as our history continues to unfold. 

I'm Jeffrey Bingham Mead, your host. Thank you for listening to the weekly podcast released on Tuesdays. 

Contact me and join our growing number of listeners anytime via email at [email protected]. 

Show podcast episodes are posted weekly on various social media platforms. Click this link to the show's Facebook site. 

I also encourage you to like and visit the group You Know You're From Greenwich Ct If, where links to the show are posted weekly, too. 

Mark your calendars. The next show is scheduled for Tuesday, the 30th of May, 2023. 

It's the 16th of May, 2023 show! Welcome! 

The month of May is traditionally the time the nation observes Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. 

On today's show, you'll hear about a lecture by the essayist and former Greenwich resident Hamilton Wright Mabie at the Second Congregational Church in 1914 on the people of Japan. Under the Carnegie Peace Foundation he went as Exchange Professor to Japan in the winter of 1912-1913.

It is our pleasure to welcome New York-based Eastern Neurologic Services, Greenwich resident Dr. Judy Gao, as the supporting sponsor. 

On Talk of the Town, I'll share an encore of a conversation I had with Historic District Commission Chair Stephen L. Bishop. Greenwich Preservation Trust is honoring him with its 2023 Preservation Leadership Award on May 25. The public is invited to Greenwich Water Club in Cos Cob. 

On Greenwich in the Gilded Age, our visit will take us to West Knoll, the only home in Greenwich designed by the renowned architectural firm McKim, Mead and White. It was built in 1887 for W.H. Brigham, and subsequently demolished in 1906 and replaced. This story was made possible by Matt Bernard, author of Victorian Summer: The Historic Houses of Belle Haven Park, Greenwich, Connecticut.

Judge Frederick A. Hubbard penned a letter to the challenging published assertions about the name Steamboat Road that would include today's Greenwich Avenue. 

On Greenwich Life As It is-And Was, Lucien Edwards reflected on the life of Edward Mead and his house off today's East Putnam Avenue. The 1905 above of the doorway to the mansion is by Wallace Nutting, titled Callers at the Squire's. It is in the collections of the Getty Museum in California. 

As we continue to mark the 125th anniversary of the establishment of the Greenwich Police Department, I’ll share news of burglaries, arrests and crimes committed and recorded from throughout Greenwich's history on Crimes and Misdemeanors.

What else? You'll hear a special message from Memorial Day 1908. 

You thought fact-checking and 'fake news' was new? The Greenwich Graphic reprinted a New York Sun piece that challenged published falsehoods about the wedding held at the Second Congregational Church on April 30, 1908 between renowned architect Thomas Hastings and Helen Benedict, daughter of Commodore and Mrs. E. C. Benedict. (featured on the January 24, 2023 show) 

Speaking of the Benedict's and their estate Indian Harbor, you'll hear about a fire in one of the outbuildings. 

There’s lots to see, to do, and to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich.

You’ve come to the right place to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut, one of America's most interesting and extraordinary communities.  

We’ll have all this -and more- as our history continues to unfold. 

I'm Jeffrey Bingham Mead, your host. Thank you for listening to the weekly podcast released on Tuesdays. 

Contact me and join our growing number of listeners anytime via email at [email protected]. 

Show podcast episodes are posted weekly on various social media platforms. Click this link to the show's Facebook site. 

I also encourage you to like and visit the group You Know You're From Greenwich Ct If, where links to the show are posted weekly, too. 

Mark your calendars. The next show is scheduled for Tuesday, the 23rd of May, 2023.