Grating the Nutmeg
Hosted by Mary Donohue and Patrick O'Sullivan and Natalie Belanger · Connecticut Explored Magazine
4.8from 61 ratings
- 315
- Episodes
- 14
- Transcribed
- 61
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2015
- First episode
About Grating the Nutmeg
Connecticut is a small state with big stories. GTN episodes include top-flight historians, compelling first-person stories and new voices in Connecticut history. Executive Producers Mary Donohue, Walt Woodward, and Natalie Belanger look at the people and places that have made a difference in CT history. New episodes every two weeks. A joint production of Connecticut Explored magazine and the CT State Historian Emeritus.
- Publisher
- Connecticut Explored Magazine
- Category
- history · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 22 Nov 2015
- Latest episode
- 15 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
14 of 315 episodes have a transcript.
15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
239. Sam Colt Mines the West (10th Anniversary Encore Release)
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
238. Living on the Edge: New England, New Netherland, and New Sweden
15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
237. Mary Barlow: Hartford's Fallen "Six-Triple-Eight" Soldier
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239. Sam Colt Mines the West (10th Anniversary Encore Release)
Published 15 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Without energy and capital, he called the mine a hole to bury money in. Tensions between Eastern and Midwestern board members grew worse. Frustrated and fearing that opportunities were being lost, Colt effectively seized control of the Sonora Exploring and Mining Company in April 1859, becoming finally its chief shareholder. On April 21st, 1859, Two Box Weekly Arizonian newspaper recorded the election of new officers of the mining company at a meeting in Cincinnati. Sam Colt was named president, William Coleman vice president, and Richard Jarvis treasurer. Other members included B.H. Cheever of Washington, D.C., Charles Poston, Augustus Belknap of Brooklyn, New York, and Edgar Conkling and Henry Howe of Cincinnati, Ohio. […]
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- 4.8 / 5
- 54 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.6 / 5
- 7 ratings
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- 66
- Social presence
- 91
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 90
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