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WCAT Videos on Historical Topics

Winthrop Community Access Television (WCAT) is a non-profit corporation that provides public, educational, and governmental access television to the town of Winthrop. Links to a selection of their videos on historical topics appears below. (https://www.wcat-tv.org/)
The History of the Deane Winthrop House with Dave Hubbard (May 3, 2022)
Winthrop historian Dave Hubbard presents the history of the Deane Winthrop House at a meeting of the Winthrop Improvement and Historical Association on May 3, 2022.

Winthrop Then And Now Trivia With Dave Hubbard (Episode 3, April 2022) (May 3, 2022)
Dave Hubbard discusses his book, "Winthrop : Then & Now; Historical Mapping of Winthrop Massachusetts." Ron Vechia hosts.

The Rifle - Andrew Biggio at the Winthrop Public Library (Dec. 22, 2021)
Andrew Biggio talks about his book, “The Rifle: Combat Stories from America’s Last WWII Veterans, Told Through an M1 Garand,”
Edward Rowe Snow's New England: Winthrop By the Sea (Aug. 23, 2019)
From the WCAT Vault: WCAT celebrates the life of Edward Rowe Snow, who resided in Winthrop and is widely known for his many publications on pirates and other nautical subjects. Between 1988 and 1990 WCAT producer Jeremy D'Entremont produced a series of six programs chronicling some of the many publications of Edward Rowe Snow. This is episode #1, Winthrop By the Sea.
- Winthrop Arts Lottery Council, WCAT
Winthrop By the Sea: The Evolution of A Town (Aug. 16, 2019)
From the WCAT Vault: In 1990 production, Jeremy D'Entremont looks at the history of the town.
- - Winthrop Improvement and Historical Association, WCAT
Friends of the Belle Isle Marsh present: In Our Own Backyard (Aug. 2, 2019)
From the WCAT Vault. Produced in 2005, 'In Our Own Backyard' features interviews with then Marsh resident Jack Markley and Clean Water Action member Lisa Jones.
- Friends of the Belle Isle Marsh, WCAT
General Stores of New England (Apr, 24, 2019)
Ted Reinstein speaking about his new book "General Stores of New England."
- Winthrop Improvement and Historical Association, WCAT
Old North Church (Feb 5, 2019)
Rev. Stephen Ayers, Vicar of Old North Church, talks about the history of the church.
- Winthrop Improvement and Historical Association, WCAT
Winthrop in the Great War (Nov. 6, 2018)
Winthrop Historian Bob Duval shows slides of Winthrop before and after WWI including a parade around Winthrop before our men went off to war.
- Winthrop Improvement and Historical Association, WCAT
Boston in the Civil Wae Era (Feb. 6, 2017)
Historian Geoffrey B. Michael discusses Boston in fall of 1860.
- Winthrop Improvement and Historical Association, WCAT
The Train on the Beach (Sept. 7, 2017)
Wiliiam Lieberman's talk from his book, The Train of the Beach: Forgotten Railroads that Transformed Winthrop, Orient Heights, and Revere Beach, Massachusetts
- Friends of Winthrop Public Library, WCAT
Read an excerpt from the book
- BookLocker
Dating and Restoring Historic Buildings (Apr. 4, 2017)
Guest speakers: Steven O'Shaughnessy and Michael Burrey from the Preservation Carpentry Program at the North Bennet Street School.
- Winthrop Improvement and Historical Association, WCAT
U.S. Constitution Blacksmith (May 3, 2016)
Guest speaker: Stephen Nichols
- Winthrop Improvement and Historical Association, WCAT
Graves Light (Nov. 3, 2015)
Guest speaker: Dave Waller
- Winthrop Improvement and Historical Association, WCAT
Lighthouses around Boston Harbor, From Scituate to Nahant (Apr. 7, 2015)
Guest speaker: Jeremy D'Entremont. Special guests: Dave and Lynn Waller, owners of the Graves Island Lisghthouse.
- Winthrop Improvement and Historical Association, WCAT
Winthrop Then and Now Reflections, Narrow Guage Railroad (July 28, 2014)
"Winthrop historian Dave Hubbard reflects on Winthrop past and present through a narration of pictures and postcards."
- Winthrop Improvement and Historical Association, WCAT
Winthrop Then and Now Reflections (June 2, 2014)
"Program highlights historical sites and buildings of old Winthrop through photos taken “then and now”, with interesting descriptions and facts narrated by Town historian G. David Hubbard."
- Winthrop Improvement and Historical Association, WCAT
Boston Lighthouse Keeper (April 1, 2014)
Sally Snowman, Boston Lighthouse Keeper and James Thomson
- Winthrop Improvement and Historical Association, WCAT
Winthrop Then and Now - Old and New Views (2004)
Winthrop Historian G. Dave Hubbard compares old pictures of Winthrop with what the same view looks like today.
- Winthrop Improvement and Historical Association, WCAT
Winthrop Then and Now - Snapshot 1868 (2003)
Winthrop Historian G. Dave Hubbard reflects on the Winthrop of 1868 using the six photographs taken when Winthrop was a candidate for a new Boston Lunatic Asylum, plus other photographs of the era.
- Winthrop Improvement and Historical Association, WCAT
Winthrop Then and Now - Old Maps (2003)
Winthrop Historian G. Dave Hubbard gives his perspective of the history of the town by examining map of Winthrop from 1628 to the present.
- Winthrop Improvement and Historical Association, WCAT
The Life and Times of Deane Winthrop (1993)
The Life and Times of Deane Winthrop. David Hubbard interviews Winthrop descendant, John Winthrop Sears. From the Winthrop Then & Now Series
- Winthrop Improvement and Historical Association, WCAT


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