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Under the Charter Oak
The CT State Library is a gateway to lifelong learning for all residents and visitors, inspiring a shared and informed future through our diverse, historic, and cultural resources.
The Under the Charter Oak Podcast will be a monthly podcast produced and run by Division of Library Development (DLD) staff members highlighting different library projects and initiatives of the CT State Library and partners.
Under the Charter Oak
Latest Episodes
Giving Kids a Voice: Meet CT’s Kid Governor Tessa Hallinan
In this upbeat episode, Kym is flying solo as she chats with Brian Cofrancesco and Linda Preston from the Connecticut Democracy Center—and Connecticut’s 2026 Kid Governor, Tessa Hallinan—about how the Kid Governor program turns thousands of fif...
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Connecticut's Revolution, Season 1.5 Ep. 6: Portrait of Major General Jabez Huntington
Just when you think the story is about one person, we flip the script. From Major General Jabez Huntington, a successful merchant from Norwich, CT, to his son Jedidiah Huntington, to Jedidiah's wife Faith Trumbull Huntington. This story is a wh...
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Connecticut's Revolution Season 1.5, Ep. 5: The Putnam Napkin
A napkin might not seem like an item of historical significance at first glance. When you find out it was present at a dinner party hosted by Major General Israel Putnam that was purportedly attended by General George Washington and the Marquis...
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Connecticut's Revolution, Season 1.5 Ep. 4: A Brick from a Field Oven
This is not your average brick. It's an 18th century brick that is believed to be one of the remnants from the field ovens built in Lebanon, CT during the American Revolution. These field ovens fed a multinational legion of cavalry and infantry...
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Connecticut's Revolution, Season 1.5 Ep. 3: King George III Statue Fragment
In the 1770s, Americans had big feelings about King George III, so much so that a 4,000 pound lead sculpture of him that was installed in 1770 on Bowling Green, New York, was torn down by 1776. Dramatic as that sounds, what happens to 4,000 pou...
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