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:
| Brass Valley, 1982 | CPTV Interview with John Driscoll, 1985 | Brass City Music, 1988 |
| Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Connecticut, 1989 | Schools in Black and White, 1991 | Between Boston and New York, 1992 |
| Dance on the Wind, 1992 | The Roots of Roe, 1994 | The Amistad Revolt: All We Want is Make Us Free, 1995 |
| Rust Valley, 1995 | Puerto Rican Passages, 1995 | Suburbia: The Good Life in Connecticut?, 1997 |
| The Road to Freedom: The Connecticut Freedom Trail, 1997 | 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 90 radio programs on a wide variety of Connecticut history topics, of those the following 90 have been digitized:
Remembering Connecticut
The Glacier and Its Effects
Ancient Indigenous Settlements
The Pequot War
Connecticut’s Ecology Transformed
Seventeenth Century Witchcraft
The Rumpus at Waterbury
A People on the Move: The Great Migration Out of Connecticut 1760-1850
The Yankee Character
The Yankee Peddlers
James Mars: A Slave in Connecticut
Prudence Crandall
The Amistad Affair
James Mars
The Civil War
Catharine Beecher and Nineteenth Century Domesticity
Mark Twain in Hartford
The Anti-Irish Crusade
Where Did the Fish Go?
The Knights of Labor
The French-Canadians In Connecticut
Home Work
Immigrant Mutual Aid
Chain Migration and Connecticut’s Ethnic Communities
Salmon Rock
Connecticut Women in Industry During World War II
Connecticut’s Lost Industrial Crafts
Connecticut’s War at Home
The Fight for Women’s Suffrage
J. Henry Roraback: Republican Boss
John M. Bailey: The Power Broker
Italians in Connecticut
The Waterbury Mutual Aid
350th Anniversary of New Haven and Its Jewish Community
Putting Down Roots in Connecticut
Equal Rights: Voting in Connecticut
Re-Apportionment: Working Towards Equal Rights in Connecticut
From Citizen Legislator to Legislative Modernization
From Big Bosses to Responsible Party Government
Revolutionizing Government: Moving Towards a Constitutional Convention
Canaan Mountain
Scatechoke Persons relation to Settlers in Their Area
Advent of the Civil Defense Advisory Committee
Not for Publication The Mass Burial Annex for Hartford: Appendix A
Fire Departments: Professional and Volunteer
Great Mountain Forest
Botanical Traditions
The Self-Sufficient Farmer
Milk
Ice
Chinese in Connecticut
Immigrant Protest
Seth Thomas
Concern: A Party
Rural Labor Economy
From Africa to Connecticut
The Black Fight for Black Rights
Soldiers Without Rights
Radioactive Fallout in Your Kids’ Teeth?
How the Conservative Movement Arose in Connecticut
Cold Warrior
Arsenal for the Nation
War Production Plant
A Connecticut Abortion in 1742
Abortion: Legal, Illegal, Legal
Connecticut Outlaws Contraception
The Restrictive Covenant in Branford
Race Matters in Branford
Making Branford’s Black Community
St. Stephens: Breaking Down Racial Barriers in Branford
Tracked!
Connecticut’s Regions
Connecticut: Diversity and Identity
Fairfield County: Part of Connecticut?
Town Sovereignty
Puritan vs. Yankee
East is East and West is West
Is Town Sovereignty a Myth?
Is There a “Their” There?
A Flight Across Connecticut
Sweatshops Runaway to Connecticut
The Teenage Girl That Unionized the Connecticut Garment Industry
We Didn’t Teach Our Daughters to Sew
Bootstrapped to Connecticut
Waterbury’s Puerto Rican Community
St. Cecilia’s Church: New Comers Haven
Puerto Rican Jobs
How Connecticut Got Its State Forests
The Evil of Stream Polution
When Did DEEP Start?
Pennies From Heaven