Welcome to This Day In Vets Day History as your host Allan Appel and regular co-pilot Jason Bischoff-Wurstle salute the veterans and the origin of the holiday that originally marked the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 when armistice was finally declared in the war to end all wars. Few people know of the economic downturn, extreme labor agitation, and Communist scare tactics that seemed to follow right on the heels of peace.
Welcome to This Day In Selling The Seats History as your host Allan Appel and co-pilot Jason Bischoff-Wurstle of the New Haven Museum time travel back to 1849 when rental of church pews figured as a big part of the revenue of our town's ecclesiastical establishments.
Welcome to This Day In Medical Care History as your host Allan Appel and regular co-pilot Jason Bischoff-Wurstle time-travel back to 1834 when an upstart herbalist and natural cures-based physician established an infirmary in the Hill. He challenged the academic docs to start healing the sick, not making them worse with their blood-letting and their "poisons."
Welcome to This Day in Tool-Making History as your host Allan Appel and regular co-pilot, Jason Bischoff-Wurstle of the New Haven time travel back to 1834 when the New Haven Axe Factory went out of business because superior products were being produced upstate in Collinsville.
Welcome to This Day In Fencing History as your host Allan Appel and regular time-traveling co-pilot, Jason Bischoff-Wurstle of the New Haven Museum, learn to cut and thrust as we acquaint ourselves with the Angelo system of sword exercise, all the rage in 1834 New Haven when fighting with swords was being transformed from a military pursuit to a sport.