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!

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 23rd of January, 2024 show.

You’ll hear my conversation with John Bridge, research assistant of the Greenwich Historical Society.

On Greenwich in the Gilded Age, we’ll take you to McCord Cottage in Belle Haven and McCord Mausoleum in Putnam-St. Mary’s Cemetery.

A century ago, Judge Frederick A. Hubbard reminisced about the original town hall burning down in 1874.

I share with you the announcement of the groundbreaking of the Pickwick Arms Hotel. 

You’ve come to the right place to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut, one of America's most 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 January, 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 16th of January, 2024 show.

In 1903 -long before Edward C. Potter’s statue of Col. Raynal C. Bolling was installed in front of the Havemeyer School Building, the people of Greenwich were introduced to the famous sculptor’s studio off North Street.

In neighboring Port Chester in 1913, Helen Keller and her teacher, Anne Sullivan, delivered a lecture under the auspices of the Port Chester Woman’s Club, with many from Greenwich attending.

On Greenwich Life As It Is-And Was, Lucien B. Edwards wrote in 1924 about the town’s dwindling number of tidal mills. 

In 1880, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant appeared in Stamford, with Civil War veterans from both Stamford and Greenwich serving as an honor guard.

In 1919, a protest and petition was formulated against the showing of movies on Sundays. 

At a wedding in Glenville in 1911, the bride, Miss Mary Tvbjk married John Chevinz. She was presented with “about $40, with which to start a housekeeping, each male guest presented who danced with her paying $1 for the privilege.” 

In 1928, Vito Dalto of South Water Street in Byram was getting his haircut in the Sokol Barber Shop on Mill Street where be became ill -and died on his way to United Hospital in Port Chester. 

You’ll hear more about the Pickwick Arms Hotel of Greenwich, too. 

You’ve come to the right place to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut, one of America's most 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 Christmas Day, Tuesday, the 23rd of January 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!

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 January, 2024 show.

'Bolling Statue A Work of Art' proclaimed the Greenwich News and Graphic on November 19, 1920. "It was about a year ago that E.C. otter, the noted sculptor, of Greenwich, began the work on a statue of the late Col. Raynal C. Bolling, one of the first prominent American victims of the world war, who was killed by a German bullte while performing a valiant service for his country." Bolling is also known in Greenwich for Greyledge, one of the town's "Great Estates."

A century ago, in January, 1924, Lucian P. Edwards published a piece in his column, Greenwich Life As It Is-And Was on Greenwich's private schools.

In August, 1916, the people of Greenwich learned, "the torpedo boat destroyer Sampson, one of the newest craft in the United States Navy, was anchored in Greenwich Harbor over the weekend, and hundreds of persons took advantage of the opportunity to inspect one of the units in Uncle Sam's great fleet of sea fighters." Sailors donned in USN uniforms were much in evidence on the streets of Greenwich, while officers were entertained at the Indian Harbor Yacht Club. 

Sketch artist and author Whitman Bailey introduced his readers to Judge George W. Brush and Joseph E.B. Brush, Characters About Town in Days Gone By.

Greenwich's Police Department was founded in 1906. History is replete with wrongdoings and misdeeds -and you’ll hear about those on Crimes and Misdemeanors. In today's show? Bootleggers. 

You’ve come to the right place to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut, one of America's most 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 16th of January, 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.

Happy New Year's Eve! Welcome to the 31st of December, 2023 show.

It’s the final day of Year 2023. You'll hear a small sampling of how the New Year was ushered in. 

I’ll share news of a proposal in 1896 to convert the calendar to thirteen months. 

A Riverside resident was feeling a bit jinxed in January, 1923. Why?

One of Greenwich’s clubs celebrated with a masquerade dance, with many from town society present. 

A Russian Prince visiting town -at the Pickwick Arms Hotel- was on trial in New York City for unpaid bills. 

I’ll have news of drunkenness and abusive language in 1908, as well as a protest of the then-Board of Selectman’s decision to authorize the shooting of unmuzzled dogs. 

A century ago, the Greenwich Chamber of Commerce published its own New Year’s resolutions, while Judge Frederick Hubbard wrote about the history of the old Town Hall. 

You’ve come to the right place to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut, one of America's most 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 9th of January, 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.

It's Christmas! Welcome to the 25th of December, 2023 show.

On today's show, you'll get a sampling of how the Christmas holiday was observed and celebrated in Greenwich, Connecticut's history.

A group of a dozen newsboys in 1908 were entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Green in Belle Haven. "They invited a dozen little newsboys of whom they knew to share their Christmas tree with them."

In Greenwich Life As It Is-And Was, local columnist Lucian Edwards wrote about the "Christmas Season" a century ago in 1923, focusing on the grocery firm Cohen Brothers, "which became one of the most democratic places of business in town, multimillionaires rubbing elbows with the humblest customers, and the courteous attention that each received..." 

In 1928, Ten Acres -where Cardinal Stadium and Greenwich High School are today -was opened to the public for ice-skating. 

Also in 1928, artist and author Whitman Bailey wrote about Christmas-Tide in the Eighties (1880s) at Indian Field, Greenwich, specifically at the Ephraim Mead house near Bruce Park. 

Saving is popular, reported the Greenwich News in 1914, citing the success of the Greenwich Trust Company's Christmas Club accounts.

Charles A. Moore of Round Hill did not let the husband of a woman who stole prize chickens get in the way of looking after the wife and her five five children. 

On Christmas Eve, December 24, 1910, the people of Greenwich learned that the town government accepted a generous gift from Mrs. Rebecca Witherell -the widow of the Nathaniel Witherell- comprising The Nathaniel Witherell Memorial Pavilion. 

You’ve come to the right place to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut, one of America's most 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 New Year's  Day, Monday, the 1st of January, 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 of 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 is 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.

Last week I stopped by the Greenwich Historical Society for a pleasant  conversation with Christopher Shields, curator of Library and Archives. 

On Greenwich in the Gilded Age, we’ll visit Seven Gables in Belle Haven Park.

On Greenwich Life: As It Is-And Was Lucian Edwards wrote about the interesting history of town’s stone quarries. 

We’ll introduce you to Whitman Bailey, a sketch artist who -starting in 1924- also wrote published commentaries about area local historic sites for thirty years. On today’s show you’ll hear Bailey’s comments about the circa 1792 Zophar Mead House at Field Point Park.

History is replete with wrongdoings and misdeeds -and you’ll hear about those on Crimes and Misdemeanors.

It pays to be polite; just ask Miss Bertha Sherwood in 1898. Did you know the famous Beecher family ran a school for young girls in Cos Cob? We’ll share more on our December holiday countdown, too. 

You’ve come to the right place to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut, one of America's most 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 Christmas Day, Monday, the 25th of December, 2023.

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!

We are pleased to promote Greenwich resident Mr. Myllan Mosquera for the best in reliable curbside door-to-door airport transportation services. I recommend Myllan without hesitation. Go where you need to go with the peace of mind of knowing that you'll travel in good hands. Please contact him anytime at 1.203.621.8383. Tell him I sent you. 

We are 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.

The best kept secret in Greenwich, Connecticut is a marvelous destination with an even more extraordinary mission.

Coffee for Good invites you to be a part of a magical story in a restored historic mansion that inclusively brings people together, thanks to a unique nonprofit partnership between Abilis and the Second Congregational Church. 

When you enter the doors of the 1858 Solomon Mead House, you’ll be instantly drawn to the warmth and ambiance of Coffee for Good at 48 Maple Avenue. 

Serving coffee, teas and delectable goodies and more, Coffee for Good is a self-sustaining teaching platform that trains people with special needs who acquire the skills and self-confidence that need to thrive in the community. 

Voted Best coffee shop by the readers of Greenwich Magazine, honored with the community impact leader award by the Connecticut Restaurant Association, and now the Jack Moffly Non-Profit Leadership Award, Coffee for Good is open daily Monday through Saturday 8am to 6pm. Enjoy free parking, free WIFI as well as year round indoor and outdoor seating, a popular destination for gatherings, meetings an a fantastic study spot, too. 

Coffee for Good is located at 48 Maple Avenue behind the Second Congregational Church in the Putnam Hill National Historic District. Visit CoffeeforGood.org 

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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!

We are pleased to promote Greenwich resident Mr. Myllan Mosquera for the best in reliable curbside door-to-door airport transportation services. I recommend Myllan without hesitation. Go where you need to go with the peace of mind of knowing that you'll travel in good hands. Please contact him anytime at 1.203.621.8383. Tell him I sent you. 

We are 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.