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Welcome to This Day In Halloween Vandalism History as your host Allan Appel and regular co-pilot Jason Bischoff-Wurstle of the New Haven Museum time-travel back to 1911 when the adults had not yet convinced the kids that tricker-treating for sweets would make a good substitute for some serious juvenile mischief, which included burning down an old house in Westville.

Welcome To This Day In Taft Hotel History as your host Allan Appel and regular co-pilot Jason Bischoff-Wurstle of the New Haven Museum time-travel back to 1911 as the newest and most modern hotel in our town and maybe all New England is not only ready to greet guests, but also to burn up their garbage in a large newfangled incinerator.

Welcome to This Day In Leaf-Burning History as your host Allan Appel and regular co-pilot Jason Bischoff-Wurstle of the New Haven Museum time-travel back to 1911 when autumn leaf-burners are advised not to start the conflagrations in the streets where the Model Ts and the other new "machines," that is, automobiles full of gasoline might themselves ignite.

Host Melissa Loucks provides listeners with their weekly update in national LGBT news.

On this episode, host Tom Ficklin talks to the Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets, senior pastor of the historic Dixwell Avenue Congregational United Church of Christ, about his run forState Rep. for Stratford, and the importance of mobilizing and getting out the vote on November 8.

On this episode, host Norma Rodriguez Reyes talks to college student Marc Charles about the chicken farming relief project he is planning to help people devastated by the earthquake in Haiti.

The Reverend Samuel T. Ross-Lee shares community insights -- and strong thoughts on the current political climate -- from Joe Ugly's studio on Chapel Street.

On this episode, host and WNHH Station Manager Lucy Gellman talks to chef, activist and Global Local Goumet Guru Nadine Nelson about her upcoming "Harvest Mandalas" project, part of City Wide Open Studios' traveling artists weekend on Oct. 22 and 23 in New Haven, CT.

Babz Rawls-Ivy, Markeshia Ricks, and Joe Ugly look behind the headlines to explore teacher pay and minority hiring, gentrification in the Hill, the rebuilding of Farnam Courts, and the two "n" words -- including the "nasty woman" meme.

On this episode, host Babz Rawls-Ivy welcomes writer, poet and playwright Marisel Vera, author of "If I Bring You Roses," to talk about identity politics, blood memory, and the role of history in her work.