{"id":314,"date":"2017-08-20T21:51:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T01:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/?p=314"},"modified":"2017-08-20T22:18:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T02:18:01","slug":"listen-up-theres-a-connecticut-history-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/2017\/08\/20\/listen-up-theres-a-connecticut-history-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen up! There&#8217;s a Connecticut history podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-327 size-full\" title=\"Grating the Nutmeg logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CTexplored.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a>If you need to tune out the everyday world for a little while (and who doesn&#8217;t?) listen to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grating the Nutmeg<\/a>,&#8221; a podcast about Connecticut history.\u00a0 A co-production of the magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/ctexplored.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Connecticut Explored<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/cthistory.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Office of the State Historian<\/a>, &#8220;Grating&#8221; already has an archive of 34 episodes, and some center on Hartford. The most recent of them: Episode 32, entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com\/32-hops-beer-and-hartfords-union-brewery-strike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hops, Beer, and Hartford\u2019s 1902 Brewery\u00a0Strike<\/a>.&#8221; Guest Steve Thornton of the <a href=\"https:\/\/shoeleatherhistoryproject.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shoeleather History Project<\/a> tells what happened when workers at Hartford&#8217;s four (yes, four!) breweries went on strike. There&#8217;s also &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com\/31-the-new-harriet-beecher-stowe-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The NEW Harriet Beecher Stowe Center<\/a>&#8221; (Episode 31), &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com\/art-agency-legacy-30-years-of-the-amistad-center-for-art-culture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Art, Agency, Legacy: Amistad Center for Art &amp; Culture<\/a>&#8221; (Episode 29), and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com\/22-the-smithsonians-eric-hintz-hartford-as-a-place-of-invention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Smithsonian&#8217;s Eric Hintz: Hartford As a Place of Invention<\/a> (Episode 22), among others.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you need to tune out the everyday world for a little while (and who doesn&#8217;t?) listen to &#8220;Grating the Nutmeg,&#8221; a podcast about Connecticut history.\u00a0 A co-production of the magazine Connecticut Explored and the Office of the State Historian, &#8220;Grating&#8221; already has an archive of 34 episodes, and some center on Hartford. The most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/2017\/08\/20\/listen-up-theres-a-connecticut-history-podcast\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Listen up! There&#8217;s a Connecticut history podcast&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,9,18],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-labor-history","tag-newspapers-magazines","tag-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}