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James, Williams in the WNHH studio.
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Seventy New Haveners have opened restaurants, barber shops, catering shops — even an upcoming driving school — thanks to a new Small Business Academy in Dixwell Plaza.
New Haven government’s Jackie James, who started the academy, and Joseph Williams, who helps her run it, talked about the action there, during an episode of WNHH radio’s “Dateline New Haven.”
In addition to small business, Thursday’s episodes on WNHH explored the inner workings of local filmmaking and theater, the NAACP, the latest book by Rebecca Makkai, and this day in the city’s history.
To listen to the Jackie James/ Joseph Williams small-business episode, click on or download the audio above or subscribe to WNHH’s new “Dateline New Haven” podcast to have episodes delivered right to your phone.
Sharon Benzoni interviewed playwright Dan O’Brien on “At The Moment.” The two discussed his work his work The Body Of An American, at the Hartford Stage through January 31. Click on or download the above sound file to listen.
Local filmmaker Gorman Bechard appeared on “Deep Focus.” With host Thomas Breen, he discussed what it means to be a Connecticut filmmaker, how New Haven creatives need to talk to each other more, and how his style has evolved from films like Color Me Obsessed to A Dog Named Gucci and current project on musician Lydia Loveless. To listen to the full episode, click on or download the audio above or subscribe to our new “WNHH Arts Mix” podcast to have the episode download to your phone or smart device.
On Alisa Bowen’s “Culture Cocktail,” host Bowens spoke to show regular Dallas A. Davis for city gossip, as well as Jason Teele, president of the NAACP Meriden. To listen to the full episode, click on or download the audio above or subscribe to our new “Elm City Lowdown” podcast to have the episode download to your phone or smart device.
On “Book Talk,” host Cyd Oppenheimer was all about Rebecca Makkai’s The Hundred-Year House, speaking to both Makkai and guests Alfred Guy and Alice Baumgartner about the book. To listen to the episode, click on or download the audio above or subscribe to our new “WNHH Arts Mix” podcast to have the episode download to your phone or smart device.
On “This Day in New Haven History,” hosts Allan Appel and Jason Bischoff-Wurstle are deep in 1916. On the 13th, the hosts go on a jaunt in a Stutz, a Franklin, and a Pierce-Arrow as they cruise up Motor Row. That’s the stretch of Whalley Avenue that in the beginning of the 20th century was home to the newest industry of all, those new-fangled horseless carriages. And you can get started saving for your carriage – the new cars cost only $1,500 or so – with a new savings account at the Yale National Bank over at the corner of State and Chapel. Minimum deposit: one dollar.
Then on the 14th, Miss Emily Pierson and Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn and other progressive ladies of Greater New Haven are inviting you to meetings of the Hartford Equal Franchise League and the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association (CWSA). The crescendo of meetings around this date are “consciousness raising” groups around women’s right to vote, but they didn’t call them that, of course. The women were all working on the newest amendment to the Constitution which was passed in 1920. Their groups had been working on the franchise since way back in 1869 when the CWSA was founded. To listen to either episode, click on or download the audio above.