Amazing Tales from CT: Oysters

We encourage you to tune in to our newest program, Amazing Tales from Off and On Connecticut's Beaten Path, which airs Sunday afternoons at 4:30 right after the Opera.

 

Amazing Tales uses a story-telling format to focus on historically significant people, places, and events from Connecticut’s past. Host Mike Allen interviews subject matter experts on a variety of historical topics.

 

He specializes in bringing local history to life, by using his journalism and story-telling skills with podcasting and public speaking. For 15 years, Mike worked as a radio journalist, both at NPR's Boston affiliate WBUR and as News Director at i-95 (WRKI-FM) in western Connecticut. He subsequently worked in government and corporate before retiring and starting his podcast. As a resident of Connecticut for more than 50 years, Mike also makes public appearances throughout the state, speaking on topics of local history.

 

Oysters

 

Among the earliest – and most important – crops that European settlers harvested in Connecticut was not corn; but rather the Eastern Oyster. It was harvested for centuries by Native Americans in Long Island Sound. After Europeans arrived, New Haven was known as The Oyster Capital of the World. The state’s support for pushes “aqua-culture” for shellfish in general.