Grating the Nutmeg

Mary Donohue, Walter Woodward

Booking Overview

A regional history interview show focused on Connecticut people, places, communities, and historical research, featuring historians, academics, authors, preservation professionals, and first-person storytellers. Credible pitches include public historians, genealogists, museum and preservation leaders, scholars of Connecticut or New England history, and authors with well-researched regional stories; booking difficulty is low to medium because the show regularly features qualified but not necessarily nationally prominent experts.

Metrics

Episodes: 258

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

waltwould@gmail.com

publisher@ctexplored.org

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Host

Mary Donohue - Historian, West Hartford Town Historian, and executive producer of Grating the Nutmeg.

Walter Woodward - Connecticut State Historian Emeritus and historian specializing in Connecticut history.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low

Typical Credentials:

Historians, university scholars, authors, genealogists, museum and archival professionals, preservation specialists, and community researchers with authoritative knowledge of Connecticut or New England history and a specific story, project, book, exhibit, or research finding to discuss.

Required Achievements:

Published books or significant historical research, University teaching or scholarly expertise, Leadership of museums, archives, historical societies, or preservation programs, Public-history exhibits and oral-history projects, Documented genealogical or community-history research

Recent Guest Discussions

Orice Jenkins - Mary Jewel Barlow, The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, Hartford’s North End, And Researching Family And Local History.

Jasmin Agusto - The History And Community Experiences Of Greater Hartford’s West Indian Diaspora.

Fiona Vernal - The History Of Greater Hartford’s West Indian Diaspora And Oral-history Research.

Elizabeth Normen - The Hart Family Of Old Saybrook, The Great Awakening, Slavery In The North, The American Revolution, Privateering, West Indies Trade, And Early American Political Development.

Todd Levine - Researching, Documenting, And Preserving Connecticut’s Historic Barns.

Recent Topics

History, Connecticut History, Historic Preservation, Genealogy, African American History

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Grating the Nutmeg

237. Mary Barlow: Hartford's Fallen "Six-Triple-Eight" Soldier

September 15, 2026

This episode tells the story of one of the women depicted in The Six Triple Eight, a 2024 WWII war drama film by Tyler Perry that tells the true story of the 6888 Central Postal Directory Battalion. Mary Jewel Barlow was one of only three members of the 6888th Postal Directory Battalion who died in service during World War II and one of only four women buried in the Normandy American Cemetery in France. The 6888 was an all-Black, all-female Women's Army Corps battalion. A real young woman f...

236. Greater Hartford's West Indian Diaspora (10th Anniversary Encore Release)

September 01, 2026

In celebration of our tenth anniversary, we are bringing you a remastered edition of an episode recorded in 2018 by Dr. Walter Woodward, Connecticut State Historian Emeritus with Dr. Fiona Vernal and former Hartford History Center Program Manager Jasmin Agusto. Dr. Vernal serves on the Connecticut Explored magazine Editorial Board. She holds a BA in history from Princeton University and a PhD. from Yale University. She is an associate professor of history and Africana studies and director of ...

235. Awakenings and Revolutions: The Harts, Saybrook, and the New Nation

August 14, 2026

From the high seas to the town square, we're bringing you the story of a New England family navigating revolution, economic expansion, and nation building. Awakenings and Revolutions: The Harts, Saybrook, and the New Nation is a new look at the residents of the Old Saybrook Historical Society's Gen. William Hart House and the Hart family of Old Saybrook, Connecticut. Moving between the Connecticut River estuary, Hartford, New London, Boston, New York, and as far as Ohio and the West Indies...

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