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Narrated by The Broadcaster 142 km · about 101 min · 21 stories

From Nook Farm to the Gilded Age shoreline: the Hartford Convention's near-secession, the Pequot War, Slater Mill starting the American industrial revolution, the Narragansett planters, and the Newport Casino — where American tennis began as a spite project.

The stories

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  1. 1
    Hartford, Connecticut

    The Early Bishops of Hartford

  2. 2
    East Hartford, Connecticut

    The Hartford Old State House

  3. 3
    Glastonbury, Connecticut

    The Welles-Shipman-Ward House

  4. 4
    South Glastonbury, Connecticut

    The Hartford Convention Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  5. 5
    Marlborough, Connecticut

    The Hartford Convention Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  6. 6
    Colchester, Connecticut

    The Hartford Convention Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  7. 7
    Colchester, Connecticut

    The Pequot War and Survival

  8. 8
    Lebanon, Connecticut

    The Legend of Alden Tavern

  9. 9
    Bozrah, Connecticut

    The Bozrah Congregational Meetinghouse

  10. 10
    Norwich, Connecticut

    The Mohegan Tribe's Sovereignty

  11. 11
    Lisbon, Connecticut

    Jonathan Trumbull's War Office

  12. 12
    Griswold, Connecticut

    The Pachaug State Forest Hoax

  13. 13
    Griswold, Connecticut

    Samuel Huntington's Rise to Power

  14. 14
    Voluntown, Connecticut

    The 1922 Textile Strike

  15. 15
    Exeter, Rhode Island

    The Birth of Slater Mill

  16. 16
    Exeter, Rhode Island

    The Lost Narragansett Pacer

  17. 17
    Exeter, Rhode Island

    The Narragansett Planters

  18. 18
    North Kingstown, Rhode Island

    The Trading Post at Cocumscussoc

  19. 19
    North Kingstown, Rhode Island

    The Gilbert Stuart Birthplace

  20. 20
    Jamestown, Rhode Island

    The Shoreby Hill Garden Suburb

  21. 21
    Newport, Rhode Island

    The Newport Casino Origins

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Where the stories come from

Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.