On the October 5, 2021 Show: Air Truck Delivery Comes to Greenwich in 1927, Striking Drivers Dump Milk in the Byram River, 'Mental Butterflies," Grass Island, Burying Hill and More!

Look up in the sky! Was it a bird? Was it a plane? The world inauguration of what was called ‘air truck delivery’ arrived in Greenwich skies on the 1st of November, 1927. You’ll hear about the cargo that was dropped, where it happened and about the crowd of onlookers who witnessed it all. Striking drivers believed to be from the Borden Milk Company stopped a truck driver and dumped 300 quarts of milk into the Byram River.Host Jeffrey Bingham Mead will have some words of celebration to share about Coffee for Good, the newest destination for your coffee fix and more in the historic Mead House -newly renovated and restored- on the campus of the Second Congregational Church.You have an assignment! Your help is needed in locating ‘Piping Book Farm,’ most likely located in the Banksville or Stanwich areas of northeastern Greenwich. You’re laying in bed late at night in 1921 experiencing bouts of “mental butterflying.” What do you do?A group of investors came together in 1914 with a “splendid plan for civic improvement” for the “unsightly” Greenwich Harbor, making is available for pleasure and commercial craft. Hint: Grass Island.October is here, Halloween is getting closer on the calendar. We’ll feature a preview about historic cemeteries in Greenwich, with a particular focus on Burying Hill in Round Hill.  We’ll have news of public events, membership and volunteer opportunities that support the preservation and celebration of Greenwich, Connecticut’s history, too.