After years of working in for-profit film production, I took my skill set into the world of public history. You can see the resulting podcasts and educational films across my website. Be sure to check out my videos here.
Coltsville
Here’s the first chapter of an audio guide I created for Coltsville National Historic Site in Hartford. There’s a fascinating past and present to be found at the factory site where Samuel Colt’s company once mass-produced his famous revolver. Keep an eye out for NPS publishing the full production!
Forgotten Voices, Forgotten Patriots
An audio introduction to people of color at the Redding Encampment.
For centuries race-based slavery was practiced in New England. A myth endures that this was relatively “good slavery” compared to the plantation systems of the American South. But New England slavery was different, not better. Unlike indentured servitude, race-based slavery created a permanent underclass of forced laborers who were denied rights based on the color of their skin. Service in the Patriot Army during the American Revolution was a rare route to manumission for enslaved Americans.
CONTENT WARNING: Some historic documents included in this program contain offensive language. This language has not been censored. Listen at your discretion.
Voices in this program:
- Peter Moran
- Anna Fossi
- Dennis Culliton – Witness Stones Project
- Ellery Leary – Putnam Memorial State Park
- Dana Meyer
- Kerel Tiggett
If you’re interested in learning more, check out our sources at:
- History of Redding
- Connecticut’s Black Soldiers: 1775-1783 – David O. White
- Putnam’s Revolutionary War Winter Encampment: The History and Archaeology of Putnam Memorial State Park – Daniel Cruson
- Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier – Joseph Plum Martin
- Forgotten Patriots – Daughters of the American Revolution
- Revolutionary War Pension Records – Ancestry.com (Subscription Required)
- Historical Archaeology of the Revolutionary War Encampments of Washington’s Army – Sgarlata, Et al.
Learn more about related research in Connecticut: Coloring Our Past
Learn more about Indigenous Patriots in Connecticut: Connecticut Indians in the War for Independence – David J. Naumec (Subscription Required)
Contempt (Unfinished)
I started making podcasts in the Winter of 2018 from my studio apartment in the Milwaukee Hotel, in the heart of Seattle’s International District. I stopped in the very same spot.
If you don’t know already, podcasts take a LOT of time, and a fair amount of money. And the Milwaukee charged a fair rent. So a paying job back on set interrupted my foray into the world of podcasting.
But I remain proud of this still-unfinished examination of public education in Washington state.
Take a listen and let me know what you think:
