Project Archivist Ashley Aberg, Rosemary Hall's First Hop, Rev. Chauncey Wilcox, & More!

CLICK HERE OR CLICK HEREThis podcast is made possible by Alexander Affiliates, Eastern Neurologic Services, Kevin M. J. O'Connor of Jeffrey Matthews Wealth Management, and listeners like you everywhere on the Atlantic Learning Consortium Network!Mr. Myllan Mosquera provides the best in reliable curbside door-to-door airport transportation services. I recommend Myllan without hesitation. Go with the peace of mind knowing that you'll travel in good hands. Please contact him anytime at 1.203.621.8383. Tell him I sent you. Michael Helupka Tree Service, LLC in Greenwich has been my choice for professional tree work for years.  I've been impressed and a satisfied customer -and you will be, too. Call 203.622.8737.Welcome to the 20th of February, 2024 show.Ashley Aberg is the Greenwich Historical Society's Project Archivist. We sat down together in the library at the Society's headquarters in Cos Cob for some lively conversation about her work.Deacon Silas Hervey MeadYou'll hear a story revealed to me in Hawaii from 19th century Greenwich history about two men -Rev. Chauncey Wilcox of the North Greenwich Congregational Church, and Deacon Silas Hervey Mead- who clashed on the subject of Abolitionism. Rosemary Hall was a girls school that opened in the Rock Ridge section of Greenwich, Connecticut in 1900. You'll learn about its first "hop" in mid-February, 1901. A young man from Ireland fell to his death in 1925 after climbing the water tower at Commodore E. C. Benedict's Indian Harbor, one of the town's Gilded Age shoreline estates. Greenwich's Police Department was founded in 1906. History is replete with wrongdoings and misdeeds, which will be shared on Crime and Misdemeanors. You'll hear about how the Police Commissioner of New York City, Richard Enright,  got into some trouble here. 2024 Shining A Light Series. For more events at Greenwich Historical Society visit here. We'll have all this -and more- as our history continues to unfold. I'm Jeffrey Bingham Mead, your host. Thank you for listening to the weekly podcast released on Tuesdays. Contact me and join our growing number of listeners anytime via email at [email protected]. Show podcast episodes are posted weekly on various social media platforms. Click this link to the show's Facebook site. I also encourage you to like and visit the group You Know You're From Greenwich Ct If, where links to the show are posted weekly, too. Mark your calendars. The next show is scheduled for Tuesday, the 27th of February, 2024.