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

                  Welcome to the 2nd of September 2025 Show

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In October, 2024 I enjoyed -and I mean I really enjoyed- one of the most fun-filled conversations about one of Greenwich's most beloved families and institutions -Freccia Brothers Garage.

When we met at Coffee for Good in the Solomon Mead House at 48 Maple Avenue that autumn morning, the Freccia family did more to educate me -and entertain me- about their place in Greenwich, Connecticut's nearly four centuries of history. 

With over 103 years of history under their belts I also learned something else about the Freccia's: They are a hardworking, tenacious and fearless bunch. 

And we are the better for it.

Flash forward to less than a year into the future to a set of circumstances that none of us foresaw. We were all caught off-guard in the worst possible way.

As reported in various media outlets, a legal battle and family dispute over ownership of the building has resulted in the business' eviction, and now the community is rallying to help Freccia Brothers Garage find a new home.

"Despite being hopeful that it would work out, unfortunately we’ve just learned that we lost the dispute and the family member who won has decided to immediately evict us," the description says.

"Every dollar you contribute goes toward helping us recover — critical expenses, securing a new space, stabilizing our future, and preserving what’s left of a century-old institution that should have never been taken away," the description adds.

In a letter posted to Facebook by Freccia Brothers Garage, Guinevere Freccia reiterated the business did not fail - it was "forced out."

"After 103 years of business, we were evicted by our landlord—Frank’s mother, my grandmother. All but one of Skip’s children are rallying to keep the shop open," wrote Guinevere. She noted the Freccias don't want to leave the building, but they "will respect the law."

The Greenwich Historical Society is hosting a series of exhibitions and public events -and you're invited! 

Join us at the Greenwich, A Town For All Seasons Show site on Facebook.  

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

Mark your calendars. The next show is scheduled for Tuesday, the 9th of September 2025. 

Jeffrey Bingham Mead, Officiant and Celebrant of Life. Weddings; Retirement; Adoptions; Civil Unions; Vow Renewals; Divorces with Civility and Dignity; Official Ceremonies; Blessings & More. Call 808.721.0306. [email protected].  

Mr. Myllan Mosquera: Reliable curbside door-to-door airport transportation services. Contact him anytime at 1.203.621.8383. 


Michael Helupka Tree Service, LLC in Greenwich. Call 203.622.8737.



Call-A-Ride of Greenwich: Free door-to-door transportation for ambulatory seniors over age 60, Monday-Friday. Call 203.661.6633. CallARideGreenwich.org

Summer Horsemanship Riding Program at Mead Farm, 107 June Road, Stamford. MeadFarm.com. 203.322.4984.  

Welcome to the 29th of July 2025 Show.

This podcast is made possible by Alexander Affiliates, Eastern Neurologic Services of New York, Kevin M. J. O'Connor of Jeffrey Matthews Wealth Management, and listeners like you everywhere!

A century ago, Greenwich hosted the state convention of the Order Sons of Italy in America -today's Order Son and Daughters of Italy in America.

Judge Frederick A. Hubbard commented about the demise of apple and elm trees that once graced the town's landscape.

In 1914, Commodore E.C. Benedict took his yacht Oneida thru the newly-completed Cape Cob Canal.

We'll have Crimes and Misdemeanors -our historical crimes report- announcements and more as our history continues to unfold.

 The Summer Sale at the Museum Store is NOW! Up to 25% off merchandise July 20-31st, 2025. Sail away with gifts for everyone from the Greenwich Historical Society's Museum Store. 

Order online and we'll ship directly to you or your loved one. Enjoy complimentary gift wrapping, too. 

The Greenwich Historical Society is hosting a series of exhibitions and public events -and you're invited! 

Join us at the Greenwich, A Town For All Seasons Show site on Facebook.  

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

Mark your calendars. The next show is scheduled for Tuesday, the 5th of August 2025. 

Jeffrey Bingham Mead, Officiant and Celebrant of Life. Weddings; Retirement; Adoptions; Civil Unions; Vow Renewals; Divorces with Civility and Dignity; Official Ceremonies; Blessings & More. Call 808.721.0306. [email protected].  

Mr. Myllan Mosquera: Reliable curbside door-to-door airport transportation services. Contact him anytime at 1.203.621.8383. 


Michael Helupka Tree Service, LLC in Greenwich. Call 203.622.8737.



Call-A-Ride of Greenwich: Free door-to-door transportation for ambulatory seniors over age 60, Monday-Friday. Call 203.661.6633. CallARideGreenwich.org

Summer Horsemanship Riding Program at Mead Farm, 107 June Road, Stamford. MeadFarm.com. 203.322.4984.  

Welcome to the 22nd of July 2025 Show.

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I caught up with Dan Quigley, a member of the Representative Town Meeting (RTM). 

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Join us to learn the details! We'll have all this and more as our history continues to unfold. 

The Greenwich Historical Society is hosting a series of exhibitions and public events -and you're invited! 

Join us at the Greenwich, A Town For All Seasons Show site on Facebook. 

I encourage you to like and visit the Facebook group You Know You're From

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Mr. Myllan Mosquera: Reliable curbside door-to-door airport transportation services. Contact him anytime at 1.203.621.8383. 


Michael Helupka Tree Service, LLC in Greenwich. Call 203.622.8737.



Call-A-Ride

Summer Horsemanship Riding Program at Mead Farm, 107 June Road, Stamford. MeadFarm.com. 203.322.4984.  

Welcome to Greenwich Founder's Day, the 18th of July 2025 Show.

This podcast is made possible by Alexander Affiliates, Eastern Neurologic Services of New York, Kevin M. J. O'Connor of Jeffrey Matthews Wealth Management, and listeners like you everywhere!

On the 385th Greenwich Founder's Day show on July 18, 2025 we featured an encore presentation of our November broadcast with Missy Wolfe, author of Hidden History of Colonial Greenwich. 

I sure hope that on these hot, often steamy summer days and nights you are catching up on your published histories of the Town of Greenwich. Missy Wolfe's tome on Greenwich's earliest years is a must-read for all.
 
Be sure to acquire your own copies of Missy's outstanding publications by visiting the Greenwich Historical Society's gift shop in Cos Cob and online -and stay tuned! 

Missy Wolfe discovered the lost world of Greenwich, Connecticut in the 1600s by transcribing hundreds of handwritten documents owned by the town. 

Digitally ordering these centuries old papers opened an ancient portal that showed how the town was first created, managed, and developed from a wilderness. 

Lost places names are recovered, along with the functioning of the Greenwich Plantation, operated for over a century. 

This first town was a mandatory and communal endeavor that employed watchers and warners, sheepmasters, cowkeepers, fenceviewers, haywards, pounders and planters.

Faced with an ever-changing new world, the first citizens here created many new-world strategies.  

Quite experimentally, they balanced religious and civic authority, private and common interests and financial inequities across communities. 

As a consequence of their heroic efforts, these first comers often found it more challenging to please their own than it was to please their God. 

The first here were compelled to depart from the past and fashion an idealized, yet still imperfect, new society. 

Missy Wolfe details the strategies and setbacks of creating community in colonial America's First Period. This work includes many new maps and illustrations.

Historian Missy Wolfe has always loved histories and biographies that allow her to time travel to meet unusual people and experience dramatic events. 

Growing up, she loved the works of Lady Antonia Fraser, Alison Weir, and Barbara Tuchman. Impressed by their research and writing, Wolfe began investigating the earliest history of her home town, Greenwich, Connecticut. 

For this she was also inspired by Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower and Russell Shorto's Island at the Center of the World.

After receiving an MBA from Columbia University and an early career in advertising, Wolfe pursued her interests in history, design and fine and decorative arts with an Associates degree from the New York School of Interior Design and a certificate of Appraisal Studies for Fine and Decorative Arts from New York University. She remains fascinated by the past and its appreciation by the modern world.

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

The Greenwich Historical Society is hosting a series of exhibitions and public events -and you're invited! 

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

Mark your calendars. The next show is scheduled for Tuesday, the 22nd of July 2025. My guest will be Dan Quigley. We'll be discussing plans for the historic Havemeyer School Building off Arch Street.

Jeffrey Bingham Mead, Officiant and Celebrant of Life. Weddings; Retirement; Adoptions; Civil Unions; Vow Renewals; Divorces with Civility and Dignity; Official Ceremonies; Blessings & More. Call 808.721.0306. [email protected].  

Mr. Myllan Mosquera: Reliable curbside door-to-door airport transportation services. Contact him anytime at 1.203.621.8383. 


Michael Helupka Tree Service, LLC in Greenwich. Call 203.622.8737.



Call-A-Ride of Greenwich: Free door-to-door transportation for ambulatory seniors over age 60, Monday-Friday. Call 203.661.6633. CallARideGreenwich.org

Summer Horsemanship Riding Program at Mead Farm, 107 June Road, Stamford. MeadFarm.com. 203.322.4984.  

Welcome to the 1st of July 2025 show.

This podcast is made possible by Alexander Affiliates, Eastern Neurologic Services of New York, Kevin M. J. O'Connor of Jeffrey Matthews Wealth Management, and listeners like you everywhere!



We're just days away from Fourth of July celebrations in Greenwich, Connecticut!

You'll hear about how the people of Greenwich celebrated America's independence in 1925 and in 1926 -at the time marking the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. 

On July 4, 1925, King George V of the United Kingdom, the British Dominions and Emperor of India sent his regards to Greenwich resident and industrialist Charles A. Moore via Prime Minister Baldwin his regards on the occasion of the Round Hill Highland Games. 

A "House of Wheels" that had been on a worldwide tour passed through Greenwich on its way to Texas.

 The last will and testament of James. M. Reid caught everyone's attention -including some family members in Greenwich. 

An unnamed prominent Greenwich resident and his family were returning from a road trip when the driver tried to outrun a motorcycle cop outside White Plains, New York. Was he ticketed?  

We'll share news and announcements with the upcoming July 4, 2025 holiday in mind.

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

The Greenwich Historical Society is hosting a series of exhibitions and public events -and you're invited! 

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

Mark your calendars. The next show is scheduled for Tuesday, the 8th of July 2025.

Welcome to the 13th of May 2025 Show.

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Mr. Myllan Mosquera: Reliable curbside door-to-door airport transportation services. Contact him anytime at 1.203.621.8383. 


Michael Helupka Tree Service, LLC in Greenwich. Call 203.622.8737.

Call-A-Ride of Greenwich: Free door-to-door transportation for ambulatory seniors over age 60, Monday-Friday, to any location in town. Call 203.661.6633. CallARideGreenwich.org

Sign up for the Summer Horsemanship Riding Program at Mead Farm, 107 June Road, Stamford. MeadFarm.com. 203.322.4984. 

Marc Bernier: Irish Music, Sea Chanteys and Drinking Songs! Fine Bodhans Made and Played! 401.596.7508. [email protected] www.marcbernier.com.

On Greenwich in the Gilded Age, we’ll visit Day Estate in Belle Haven thanks to Victorian Summer: The Historic Houses of Belle Haven Park, Greenwich, Connecticut by Matt Bernard. 

What happened in Year 1919?

On Crimes and Misdemeanors, you’ll hear that not everyone in Greenwich was a law-abiding as we thought. 

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