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 sixteen have been digitized:
| Between Boston and New York, 1992 | Puerto Rican Passages, 1995 | Colt: Legend and Legacy, 1997 |
| From Here to There, 1998 | 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 | The Green, 2001 |
| As We Tell Our Stories: Native Americans in Connecticut, 2001 | Home Front: Connecticut During WWII, 2001 | Connecticut’s Tobacco Valley, 2001 |
| Connecticut and Its Cities: Challenge of Renewal, Part I, 2002 | Connecticut and Its Cities: Challenge of Renewal, Part II, 2002 | |
| East of the River, 2004 | The Rise and Fall of Newgate Prison, 2004 |
Not yet digitized titles include:
- SCHOOLS IN BLACK AND WHITE, 1991 documentary on segregation in Connecticut public schools.
- 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
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Episode Two: Ancient Indigenous Settlements
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Episode Three: The Pequot War
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Episode Four: Connecticut’s Ecology Transformed
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Episode Five: Seventeenth Century Witchcraft
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Episode Six: The Rumpus at Waterbury
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Episode Seven: A People on the Move: The Great Migration Out of Connecticut 1760-1850
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Episode Eight: The Yankee Character
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Episode Nine: The Yankee Peddlers
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Episode Ten: James Mars: A Slave in Connecticut
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Episode Eleven: Prudence Crandall
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Episode Twelve: The Amistad Affair
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Episode Thirteen: James Mars
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Episode Fourteen: The Civil War
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Episode Fifteen: Catharine Beecher and Nineteenth Century Domesticity
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Episode Sixteen: Mark Twain in Hartford
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Episode Seventeen: The Anti-Irish Crusade
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Episode Eighteen: Where Did the Fish Go?
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Episode Nineteen: The Knights of Labor
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Episode Twenty: The French-Canadians In Connecticut
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Episode Twenty-one: Home Work
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Episode Twenty-two: Immigrant Mutual Aid
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Episode Twenty-three: Chain Migration and Connecticut’s Ethnic Communities
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Episode Twenty-four: Salmon Rock
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Episode Twenty-five: Connecticut Women in Industry During World War II
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Episode Twenty-six: Connecticut’s Lost Industrial Crafts
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Episode Twenty-seven: Connecticut’s War at Home
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Episode Twenty-eight: The Fight for Women’s Suffrage
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Episode Twenty-nine: J. Henry Roraback: Republican Boss
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Episode Thirty: John M. Bailey: The Power Broker
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Season Two
Episode One: Italians in Connecticut
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Episode Two: Railroads
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Episode Three: 350th Anniversary of New Haven
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Episode Four: Putting Down Roots in Connecticut
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Episode Five: Equal Rights: Voting in Connecticut
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Episode Six: Re-Apportionment: Working Towards Equal Rights in Connecticut
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Episode Seven: From Citizen Legislator to Legislative Modernization
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Episode Eight: From Big Bosses to Responsible Party Government
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Episode Nine: Revolutionizing Government: Moving Towards a Constitutional Convention
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Episode Ten: Canaan Mountain
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Episode Eleven: Scatechoke Persons relation to Settlers in Their Area
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Episode Twelve: Advent of the Civil Defense Advisory Committee
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Episode Thirteen: Not for Publication The Mass Burial Annex for Hartford: Appendix A
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Episode Fourteen: Fire Departments: Professional and Volunteer
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Episode Fifteen: Great Mountain Forest
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Episode Sixteen: Botanical Traditions
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Episode Seventeen: The Self-Sufficient Farmer
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Episode Eighteen: Milk
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Episode Nineteen: Ice
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Episode Twenty: Chinese in Connecticut
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Episode Twenty-one: Immigrant Protest
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Episode Twenty-two: Seth Thomas
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Episode Twenty-three: Concern: A Party
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