Grating the Nutmeg
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Episodes: 252
Frequency: Biweekly
Rating: 4.8/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1k-10k
Gender skew: Neutral
Location: USA
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Host
Mary Donohue - Executive Producer and host figure for Grating the Nutmeg; also identified in the episode notes as West Hartford Town Historian. Produces episodes and helps shape editorial content around Connectic...
Walt Woodward - Executive Producer of Grating the Nutmeg. Supports the show’s editorial mission to highlight people and places in Connecticut history.
Natalie Belanger - Executive Producer of Grating the Nutmeg. Helps oversee content direction centered on Connecticut’s historical figures, institutions, and sites.
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Recent Guest Discussions
John Foley - Irish Diaspora History In Connecticut; Museum Exhibit Planning And The New Museum Building
Garrett Sutton - Business And Entrepreneurial History Of Espn’s Founding; Research Behind SPORTS HEAVEN
Mike Soltys - The History Of Espn’s Founding And Early Culture; Research Behind SPORTS HEAVEN Book/documentary
Patricia Hoerth Batchelder - Biography Of Sculptor Evelyn Beatrice Longman; Role Of Women In The Arts And Monument Building
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Episodes
231. John Hooker: Hartford's Abolitionist Lawyer
June 01, 2026
In this episode, you'll be introduced to John Hooker, a Hartford lawyer, judge, and abolitionist as well as a reformer for women's rights. Hooker was the president of the anti-slavery committee in Hartford, published the Charter Oak anti-slavery newspaper with the Connecticut Anti-Slavery Society of Hartford, and co-authored with his wife Isabella Beecher Hooker, the state bill in 1877 that gave married women more control of their property. Why isn't he better known? Our guest for this epi...
230. Pursuing Happiness: New Horizons Village
May 15, 2026
In 1955, a group of disabled young adults living at New Britain Memorial Hospital signed a letter declaring their intention to seek out "adventuresome living for the physically handicapped." They formed a nonprofit called New Horizons and set out on a thirty-year journey to raise money and navigate legal barriers in order to realize their most cherished dream: a housing complex for the disabled, run by the disabled. In 2026, New Horizons Village in Farmington turns 40. In this episode, Natali...
229. Irish Immigration in Art from the Fairfield Great Hunger Museum at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum
May 01, 2026
Famine Irish, lace-curtain Irish, shanty Irish: the Irish Diaspora has shaped Connecticut's European immigrant history from the 1840s. Traces of Irish history and culture in the state are not only found in archival and artifact collections but also through the historic buildings, neighborhoods, and cemeteries that stand across the state. Whether they were immigrants, expatriates, refugees, or indentured servants when they arrived from Ireland, 14 percent of Connecticut's current residents cl...
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