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

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!

Mr. Myllan Mosquera provides the best in reliable curbside door-to-door airport transportation services. I recommend Myllan without hesitation. Go with the peace of mind knowing that you'll travel in good hands. Please contact him anytime at 1.203.621.8383. Tell him I sent you. 

Michael Helupka Tree Service, LLC in Greenwich has been my choice for professional tree work for years.  I've been impressed and a satisfied customer -and you will be, too. Call 203.622.8737.

Welcome to the 16th of April, 2024 show.

On Greenwich in the Gilded Age, we'll journey back in time and visit the Bruce Cottages, made possible by Victorian Summer: The Historic Houses of Belle Haven Park, Greenwich, Connecticut by Matt Bernard.  

On Greenwich Life As It Is -And Was, Lucien Edwards wrote about the King Street Baptist Church in Glenville. 

Greenwich's Police Department was founded in 1906. History is replete with wrongdoings and misdeeds  on Crimes and Misdemeanors. 

"Old Hardy" was the last living Native American in Greenwich. In July, 1924, a letter writer to the Greenwich News & Graphic reminisced about his life before he died in the 1850s. 

"Belle Haven is Awake," proclaimed the Greenwich Graphic in April, 1905. "The early season has had is effect on Belle Haven, and that beautiful summer resort is being prepared for a prosperous and busy season." 

April 6, 1914 was not a good day for Maurice Wertheim -banker, art collector, owner of Wyndygoul in Cos Cob -and father of author/historian Barbara Tuchman. He almost lost his life in a freak accident at Greenwich's railroad depot. 

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 April 2024.

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!

Mr. Myllan Mosquera provides the best in reliable curbside door-to-door airport transportation services. I recommend Myllan without hesitation. Go with the peace of mind knowing that you'll travel in good hands. Please contact him anytime at 1.203.621.8383. Tell him I sent you. 

Michael Helupka Tree Service, LLC in Greenwich has been my choice for professional tree work for years.  I've been impressed and a satisfied customer -and you will be, too. Call 203.622.8737.

Welcome to the 9th of April, 2024 show.

On Greenwich in the Gilded Age, we'll journey back in time and visit Ridgecrest, made possible by Victorian Summer: The Historic Houses of Belle Haven Park, Greenwich, Connecticut by Matt Bernard. 

Greenwich's Old Burying Ground at Byram Shore Road was the scene of long-needed repairs to its ancient gravestones -thanks to the efforts of Alex Popp. I'll have details.  

Greenwich's Police Department was founded in 1906. History is replete with wrongdoings and misdeeds  on Crimes and Misdemeanors. 

The skies above just recently gave us the solar eclipse of 2024. I'll share details of another eclipse from Year 1970. 

I admit that the earthquake of 2024 passed me; others felt the ground move under our feet. You'll hear about another earthquake that struck the region in Year 1935.  

Our history is replete with news of unexpected weather phenomenon. I'll share news of the Dark Day of 1780 by Luther Prescott Hubbard, who was anxious to correct an error. 

When Greenwich residents received their April 23, 1898 edition of The Greenwich Graphic, they read about An Old Lady's Outing -Mrs. George Provost returned to town in her 84th year to reminisce about Greenwich and growing up here. 

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 16th of April, 2024.

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!

Mr. Myllan Mosquera provides the best in reliable curbside door-to-door airport transportation services. I recommend Myllan without hesitation. Go with the peace of mind knowing that you'll travel in good hands. Please contact him anytime at 1.203.621.8383. Tell him I sent you. 

Michael Helupka Tree Service, LLC in Greenwich has been my choice for professional tree work for years.  I've been impressed and a satisfied customer -and you will be, too. Call 203.622.8737.

Welcome to the 26th of March, 2024 show.

On Greenwich in the Gilded Age, we'll journey back in time and visit Althea Lodge, made possible by Victorian Summer: The Historic Houses of Belle Haven Park, Greenwich, Connecticut by Matt Bernard. 

March is Women's History Month. You'll hear about  Life: Six Women Photographers, on exhibit at the Greenwich Historical Society March 6-July 7, 2024. I've been to see this extraordinary exhibit, and it exceeded my expectations. Go see it. You'll be glad you did. 

On Greenwich Life As It Is-And Was, Lucien Edwards commented on a musical organization comprising Greenwich's leading singers: The Orpheus Club. 

Greenwich's Police Department was founded in 1906. History is replete with wrongdoings and misdeeds, which will be shared on Crime and Misdemeanors. 

A man was fishing in Greenwich Harbor, caught an eel in June, 1924, and found something quite surprising and expensive inside. As always, there's more to the story. 

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 2nd of April, 2024.

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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!

Mr. Myllan Mosquera provides the best in reliable curbside door-to-door airport transportation services. I recommend Myllan without hesitation. Go with the peace of mind knowing that you'll travel in good hands. Please contact him anytime at 1.203.621.8383. Tell him I sent you. 

Michael Helupka Tree Service, LLC in Greenwich has been my choice for professional tree work for years.  I've been impressed and a satisfied customer -and you will be, too. Call 203.622.8737.

Welcome to the 19th of March, 2024 show. Happy Vernal Equinox!

On Greenwich in the Gilded Age, we'll journey back in time and visit Lafayette Cottage, made possible by Victorian Summer: The Historic Houses of Belle Haven Park, Greenwich, Connecticut by Matt Bernard. 

March is Women's History Month. You'll hear about Mitsu Okabe Arai (Mrs. Yoneo Arai) of Glen Avon Drive in Riverside. 

We'll feature an update about restoration work underway at the Old Burying Ground in Byram, and efforts to install a monument commemorating Lafayette's visit to Greenwich in 1824. 

On Greenwich Life As It Is-And Was, Lucien Edwards commented on land development in 1924

Greenwich's Police Department was founded in 1906. History is replete with wrongdoings and misdeeds, which will be shared on Crime and Misdemeanors. 

Mark your calendars for LIFE: Six Women Photographers opening March 6, 2024 at the Greenwich Historical Society. 

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 26th of March, 2024.

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!

Mr. Myllan Mosquera provides the best in reliable curbside door-to-door airport transportation services. I recommend Myllan without hesitation. Go with the peace of mind knowing that you'll travel in good hands. Please contact him anytime at 1.203.621.8383. Tell him I sent you. 

Michael Helupka Tree Service, LLC in Greenwich has been my choice for professional tree work for years.  I've been impressed and a satisfied customer -and you will be, too. Call 203.622.8737.

Welcome to the 12th of March, 2024 show.

On Greenwich in the Gilded Age, we'll journey back in time and visit Parke Cottage, made possible by Victorian Summer: The Historic Houses of Belle Haven Park, Greenwich, Connecticut by Matt Bernard. 

March is Women's History Month. You'll learn about Caroline Mills Smith Mead. “The first of Greenwich farming land to be developed into residential sites was owned by a woman who promoted what proved to be one of the most successful real estate operations ever planned for Greenwich.” That part of the story of Caroline Mills Smith Mead began in 1906 when Suburban Avenue, Tremont Street and Randolph Place in Cos Cob were laid out and lots subdivided. But there's more to her story.

A letter was received about a proper flag pole commemorating those who served in World War I, in front of the Main Post Office on Greenwich Avenue. 

Greenwich's Police Department was founded in 1906. History is replete with wrongdoings and misdeeds, which will be shared on Crime and Misdemeanors. 

Mark your calendars for LIFE: Six Women Photographers opening March 6, 2024 at the Greenwich Historical Society. 

Good news! Greenwich Historical Society's Art & History Camp is back for Summer, 2024! Learn more and register here.

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 19th of March, 2024.

CLICK HERE OR CLICK HERE

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!

Mr. Myllan Mosquera provides the best in reliable curbside door-to-door airport transportation services. I recommend Myllan without hesitation. Go with the peace of mind knowing that you'll travel in good hands. Please contact him anytime at 1.203.621.8383. Tell him I sent you. 

Michael Helupka Tree Service, LLC in Greenwich has been my choice for professional tree work for years.  I've been impressed and a satisfied customer -and you will be, too. Call 203.622.8737.

Welcome to the 27th of February, 2024 show.

On Greenwich in the Gilded Age, we'll journey back in time and visit Conover Cottage, made possible by Victorian Summer: The Historic Houses of Belle Haven Park, Greenwich, Connecticut by Matt Bernard. 

You'll hear about the Green-Twachtman House on Round Hill Road -and an artistic acquisition of a work by Twachtman of this special home as Black History Month comes to a close. 

Artist Whitman Bailey shared his perspective on Greenwich Harbor in Winter, 1930. 

On Greenwich Life As It Is-And Was, Erwin Edwards recalls the old market boats in Greenwich -and the first sloop race on the Sound. 

In 1883 it was announced that -finally- the telephone was arriving in Greenwich!

Greenwich's Police Department was founded in 1906. History is replete with wrongdoings and misdeeds, which will be shared on Crime and Misdemeanors. 

Mark your calendars for LIFE: Six Women Photographers opening March 6, 2024 at the Greenwich Historical Society. 

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 5th of March, 2024.

CLICK HERE OR CLICK HERE

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!

Mr. Myllan Mosquera provides the best in reliable curbside door-to-door airport transportation services. I recommend Myllan without hesitation. Go with the peace of mind knowing that you'll travel in good hands. Please contact him anytime at 1.203.621.8383. Tell him I sent you. 

Michael Helupka Tree Service, LLC in Greenwich has been my choice for professional tree work for years.  I've been impressed and a satisfied customer -and you will be, too. Call 203.622.8737.

Welcome to the 20th of February, 2024 show.

Ashley Aberg is the Greenwich Historical Society's Project Archivist. We sat down together in the library at the Society's headquarters in Cos Cob for some lively conversation about her work.

You'll hear a story revealed to me in Hawaii from 19th century Greenwich history about two men -Rev. Chauncey Wilcox of the North Greenwich Congregational Church, and Deacon Silas Hervey Mead- who clashed on the subject of Abolitionism. 

Rosemary Hall was a girls school that opened in the Rock Ridge section of Greenwich, Connecticut in 1900. You'll learn about its first "hop" in mid-February, 1901. 

A young man from Ireland fell to his death in 1925 after climbing the water tower at Commodore E. C. Benedict's Indian Harbor, one of the town's Gilded Age shoreline estates. 

Greenwich's Police Department was founded in 1906. History is replete with wrongdoings and misdeeds, which will be shared on Crime and Misdemeanors. 

You'll hear about how the Police Commissioner of New York City, Richard Enright,  got into some trouble here. 

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 February, 2024.

CLICK HERE OR CLICK HERE

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!

Mr. Myllan Mosquera provides the best in reliable curbside door-to-door airport transportation services. I recommend Myllan without hesitation. Go with the peace of mind knowing that you'll travel in good hands. Please contact him anytime at 1.203.621.8383. Tell him I sent you. 

Michael Helupka Tree Service, LLC in Greenwich has been my choice for professional tree work for years.  I've been impressed and a satisfied customer -and you will be, too. Call 203.622.8737.

Welcome to the 13th of February, 2024 show.

Today’s show begins with Shubal Brush of Stanwich, who lived in the Brush Lockwood House located at the intersection of Taconic and North Stanwich roads. 

He was a tanner by profession -and as we observe Black History Month, an Abolitionist.

Valentine’s Day is soon upon us. You’ll hear a sampling of how the day was observed in Greenwich.

Lucian B. Edwards published an article in his column Greenwich Life As It Is-And Was about the growing number of residential parks in town.

Speaking of residential parks, it was announced a century ago that Milbrook -south of the Boston Post Road or East Putnam Avenue- would be developed.  

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 February, 2024.

CLICK HERE OR CLICK HERE

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!

Mr. Myllan Mosquera provides the best in reliable curbside door-to-door airport transportation services. I recommend Myllan without hesitation. Go with the peace of mind knowing that you'll travel in good hands. Please contact him anytime at 1.203.621.8383. Tell him I sent you. 

Michael Helupka Tree Service, LLC in Greenwich has been my choice for professional tree work for years.  I've been impressed and a satisfied customer -and you will be, too. Call 203.622.8737.

Welcome to the 6th of February, 2024 show.

Happy Ground Hog Day! This day on the calendar has been observed in Greenwich for generations. We'll go back in history to 1897. 

On one of our recent cold, wintery days I was "talking story" (an expression used often at my home in Hawaii) with a friend and listener in The Cafe at Greenwich Library. I mentioned that one of our Mead Family farms used to be there. 

In October, 1929, it was announced that Dearfields (built 1799) would be moved to a new location at 8 Grove Lane. Yes, the house is still there. You'll hear the details.

Black History Month has arrived. On today's show I'll share excerpts of a brilliant article on Black Loyalists (to the British Crown) during the American Revolution, written by Greenwich's foremost historian on the town's African American history, Teresa Vega, published by the Connecticut Ancestry Society. 

Greenwich's Police Department was founded in 1906. History is replete with wrongdoings and misdeeds, which will be shared on Crime and Misdemeanors. On today's show? Speeding cars -a subject we still grapple with in the 21st century. 

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 February, 2024.

CLICK HERE OR CLICK HERE

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!

Mr. Myllan Mosquera provides the best in reliable curbside door-to-door airport transportation services. I recommend Myllan without hesitation. Go with the peace of mind knowing that you'll travel in good hands. Please contact him anytime at 1.203.621.8383. Tell him I sent you. 

Michael Helupka Tree Service, LLC in Greenwich has been my choice for professional tree work for years.  I've been impressed and a satisfied customer -and you will be, too. Call 203.622.8737.

Welcome to the 30th of January, 2024 show.

He was in his time America's most notorious rogue who arrived in Greenwich, Connecticut in 1860. His name? William Marcey "Boss" Tweed. 

On Greenwich Life As It Is-And Was, Erwin Edwards shared the news of the Year 1919 bell in the steeple of the Second Congregational Church presented on Easter Sunday by Charles N. Mead -and previous bells, too. 

Greenwich's Police Department was founded in 1906. History is replete with wrongdoings and misdeeds, which will be shared on Crime and Misdemeanors. On today's show? Highway robbery in Glenville. 

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 6th of February, 2024.