From 1989 to 2001 I served as Humanities Scholar-in-Residence at Connecticut Public Television and Radio, a position supported by the Connecticut Humanities Council. I wrote the scripts for the documentaries The Roots of Roe, Schools in Black and White, Rust Valley, The Amistad Revolt, Electronic Road Film, Brass City Music, and Dance on the Wind, the last two of which I co-produced.
As Humanities Scholar-in-Residence I developed and supervised the documentary series The Connecticut Experience, produced by the Connecticut Humanities Council in collaboration with Connecticut Public Television. The series included more than twenty documentaries on Connecticut topics, of those the following nineteen have been digitized:
| Schools in Black and White, 1991 | Between Boston and New York, 1992 | Dance on the Wind, 1992 |
| Rust Valley, 1995 | Puerto Rican Passages, 1995 | Colt: Legend and Legacy, 1997 |
| From Here to There, 1998 | Global Village or Global Pillage?, 1999 | African Americans in Connecticut: The Colonial Era to The Civil War, 1998 |
| African American in Connecticut: The Civil War to Civil Rights, 1998 | Schools Good Enough for All, 2000 | Connecticut and the Sea, 2000 |
| As We Tell Our Stories: Native Americans in Connecticut, 2001 | Home Front: Connecticut During WWII, 2001 | Connecticut’s Tobacco Valley, 2001 |
| The Green, 2001 | Connecticut and Its Cities: Three Centuries of Change, Part I, 2002 | Connecticut and Its Cities: Challenge of Renewal, Part II, 2002 |
| The Rise and Fall of Newgate Prison, 2004 | East of the River, 2004 |
Not yet digitized titles include:
- THE ROOTS OF ROE, 1994 documentary history of contraception and abortion, broadcast nationally by PBS in 1997.
- THE AMISTAD REVOLT, 1995 documentary on the “Amistad incident.”
I was also producer, writer, and host of Connecticut Public Radio’s Remembering Connecticut, which broadcast more than 80 radio programs on a wide variety of Connecticut history topics, of those the following 53 have been digitized:
Remembering Connecticut
Season One
Episode One: The Glacier and Its Effects
Episode Two: Ancient Indigenous Settlements
Episode Three: The Pequot War
Episode Four: Connecticut’s Ecology Transformed
Episode Five: Seventeenth Century Witchcraft
Episode Six: The Rumpus at Waterbury
Episode Seven: A People on the Move: The Great Migration Out of Connecticut 1760-1850
Episode Eight: The Yankee Character
Episode Nine: The Yankee Peddlers
Episode Ten: James Mars: A Slave in Connecticut
Episode Eleven: Prudence Crandall
Episode Twelve: The Amistad Affair
Episode Thirteen: James Mars
Episode Fourteen: The Civil War
Episode Fifteen: Catharine Beecher and Nineteenth Century Domesticity
Episode Sixteen: Mark Twain in Hartford
Episode Seventeen: The Anti-Irish Crusade
Episode Eighteen: Where Did the Fish Go?
Episode Nineteen: The Knights of Labor
Episode Twenty: The French-Canadians In Connecticut
Episode Twenty-one: Home Work
Episode Twenty-two: Immigrant Mutual Aid
Episode Twenty-three: Chain Migration and Connecticut’s Ethnic Communities
Episode Twenty-four: Salmon Rock
Episode Twenty-five: Connecticut Women in Industry During World War II
Episode Twenty-six: Connecticut’s Lost Industrial Crafts
Episode Twenty-seven: Connecticut’s War at Home
Episode Twenty-eight: The Fight for Women’s Suffrage
Episode Twenty-nine: J. Henry Roraback: Republican Boss
Episode Thirty: John M. Bailey: The Power Broker
Season Two
Episode One: Italians in Connecticut
Episode Two: Railroads
Episode Three: 350th Anniversary of New Haven
Episode Four: Putting Down Roots in Connecticut
Episode Five: Equal Rights: Voting in Connecticut
Episode Six: Re-Apportionment: Working Towards Equal Rights in Connecticut
Episode Seven: From Citizen Legislator to Legislative Modernization
Episode Eight: From Big Bosses to Responsible Party Government
Episode Nine: Revolutionizing Government: Moving Towards a Constitutional Convention
Episode Ten: Canaan Mountain
Episode Eleven: Scatechoke Persons relation to Settlers in Their Area
Episode Twelve: Advent of the Civil Defense Advisory Committee
Episode Thirteen: Not for Publication The Mass Burial Annex for Hartford: Appendix A
Episode Fourteen: Fire Departments: Professional and Volunteer
Episode Fifteen: Great Mountain Forest
Episode Sixteen: Botanical Traditions
Episode Seventeen: The Self-Sufficient Farmer
Episode Eighteen: Milk
Episode Nineteen: Ice
Episode Twenty: Chinese in Connecticut
Episode Twenty-one: Immigrant Protest
Episode Twenty-two: Seth Thomas
Episode Twenty-three: Concern: A Party