Grating the Nutmeg

Mary Donohue, Walt Woodward, Natalie Belanger

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Booking Overview

Grating the Nutmeg is a Connecticut history podcast built around conversations with historians and preservation/interpretation professionals, plus occasional first-person perspectives tied to major sites and movements in the state’s past. For PR teams, it’s a strong platform for experts who can connect lived history, public history work, and place-based storytelling to Connecticut audiences.

Metrics

Episodes: 254

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

Contact Information

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Host

Mary Donohue - Executive Producer of Grating the Nutmeg. The show credits her as producing the episodes and notes she is the West Hartford Town Historian.

Walt Woodward - Executive Producer of Grating the Nutmeg, credited in the podcast description as one of the people looking at the people and places that made a difference in Connecticut history.

Natalie Belanger - Executive Producer of Grating the Nutmeg, credited in the podcast description as looking at the people and places that made a difference in Connecticut history. In recent episodes, she is also cred...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Scholars and practitioners in Connecticut public history/interpretation (e.g., museum or heritage-center staff), historians researching local history, authors tied to Connecticut history, and community-history stewards connected to specific sites/programs (heritage trails, preservation projects, or interpretive initiatives).
Required Achievements:  
Museum/heritage interpretation leadership, Public history research tied to specific Connecticut sites, Development or stewardship of heritage resources (e.g., heritage trails or curated guide content), Published scholarship or documented work connected to local history

Recent Guest Discussions

Tom Schuch - New London Green Book Sites; Black Heritage Trail; Preservation Of Mid-20th-century Green Book Travel Resources.

Nicole Thomas - New London Green Book Sites; New London Black Heritage Trail; Hempstead Houses Interpretation (adm Jackson).

Erika Slocumb - John Hooker; Hartford Abolitionist Activity; Women’s Rights Reform; Interpretation/visitor Experience Tied To Literary Activism And Black History.

Recent Topics

Connecticut, History, Publichistory, Preservation, Civilrights

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Grating the Nutmeg
:

233. Rough Justice for Connecticut State Hero Nathan Hale (10th Anniversary Encore Release)

July 03, 2026

Happy 250th birthday to our nation and 10th anniversary to Grating the Nutmeg! In celebration of our 10th anniversary, we are bringing you a remastered edition of an episode recorded in 2020 with Dr. Walter Woodward, Connecticut State Historian Emeritus. Dr. Woodward takes a new look at the actions surrounding the Revolutionary War execution of State Hero Nathan Hale, and finds there are still some burning questions left to be answered about this hasty and irregular event. It's a story from W...

232. Guides for Black Travelers: New London's Green Book Sites

June 15, 2026

What's the first thing you do when you want to take a trip? Look through Instagram to find things to do? Or Yelp for restaurants that serve local cuisine? Today travelers can follow social media influencers and websites that promise to give you an insider's look at places to stay or the best discounted hotel rates. But for Black travelers in the Jim Crow era through the 1960s, it wasn't easy to find places to eat or stay overnight. In this episode, we are going to talk about two national guid...

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...

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