Welcome to This Day In Vets Day History as your host Allan Appel and regular co-pilot Jason Bischoff-Wurstle salute the veterans and the origin of the holiday that originally marked the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 when armistice was finally declared in the war to end all wars. Few people know of the economic downturn, extreme labor agitation, and Communist scare tactics that seemed to follow right on the heels of peace.

Welcome to This Day In Selling The Seats History as your host Allan Appel and co-pilot Jason Bischoff-Wurstle of the New Haven Museum time travel back to 1849 when rental of church pews figured as a big part of the revenue of our town's ecclesiastical establishments.