Before we launched this show, our team collectively produced over three hundred episodes of both Down Time with Cranston Public Library and Rhody Radio podcasts. This week, we’re bringing you an ITEM RENEWAL, where we share an excerpt from these archives. In this bonus episode, we’re taking you back to the Nathanael Greene Homestead with an episode of Rhody Radio first published in December 2023. In it, host Lauren talks with Brian Zinszer from the Major General Nathanael Greene Homestead in Coventry, Rhode Island. If These Walls Could Talk is a series of podcast episodes that began on Rhody Radio, where we learn about the historic house museums of Rhode Island, and this was the second episode in that series. Lauren and Brian chat about the history of the Homestead, General Nathanael Greene, and what everyday life looked like for the General and his family.

Browse our team's full back catalog at overdueingit.org/archive.

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Host Lauren chats with Dave Procaccini, President of the Gen. Nathanael Greene Homestead Association and Lauren Fogarty, Program Coordinator for the Rhode Island Semiquincentennial 250th Commission (RI250). They talk about Major General Nathanael Greene, Rhode Island’s role in the American Revolution, and what Rhode Islanders can expect as the state ramps up to celebrate America’s 250th birthday. In the Last Chapter they discuss their favorite books, films, and TV series’ about the American Revolution.

Overdueing It is a project funded by the Rhode Island Office of Library and Information Services and is produced by library staff around the state. We are proud to be a resident partner of the Rhode Island Center for the Book. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the speakers’ own and do not represent those of the Overdueing It podcast, its sponsor organizations, or any participants' place of employment. The content of Overdueing It episodes are the property of the individual creators, with permission for Overdueing it to share the content on their podcast feed in perpetuity. Any of the content from the Overdueing podcast cannot be reproduced without express written permission.

Our logo was designed by Sarah Bouvier and our theme music is by Neura-Flow.

Books

The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson

Foxfire ed. by Eliot Wigginton

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Nathanael Greene: A Biography of the American Revolution by Gerald M. Carbone

Washington: Lessons in Leadership by Gerald M. Carbone

Brown & Sharpe and the Measure of American Industry: Making the Precision Machine Tools That Enabled Manufacturing, 1833-2001 by Gerald M. Carbone

From Slaves to Soldiers: The 1st Rhode Island Regiment in the American Revolution by Robert Geake

The Season: A Social History of the Debutante by Kristen Richardson

Media

Andor (TV series, 2022-2025)

Handmaid’s Tale (TV series, 2017-2025)

TURN: Washington’s Spies (TV series, 2014-2017)

Liberty’s Kids (TV series, 2002-2003)

1776 (film, 1972)

Revolution (film, 1985)

It’s another installment of our series on Cooperatives in Rhode Island! Host Emily sits down with Khiry Chivers of PVD Flowers (@pvdflowersri) to chat about the Cooperative Cannabis industry coming soon to Rhode Island. With the passing of legalization of cannabis in RI, the state set aside 6 licenses for cooperative businesses to be set up. PVD Flowers is manifesting to hold one of those licenses. Hear about their journey, the importance of cooperatives in the cannabis industry, and manifesting your future in this week’s episode! Visit PVD Flowers online at pvd-flowers.com and learn more about Cooperative work in RI with Co-Op Rhody

Check out other episodes in the Cooperative series:

• Start here: RI’s Growing Solidarity Economy
• Cooperative Bookstore, Heartleaf Books
• Cooperative Birthing, RI Birthworker’s Cooperative

Overdueing It is a project funded by the Rhode Island Office of Library and Information Services and is produced by library staff around the Ocean State. We are proud to be a resident partner of the Rhode Island Center for the Book. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the speakers’ own and do not represent those of the Overdueing It podcast, its sponsor organizations, or any participants' place of employment. The content of Overdueing It episodes are the property of the individual creators, with permission for Overdueing It to share the content on their podcast feed in perpetuity. Any of the content from the Overdueing It podcast can not be reproduced without express written permission.

Our logo was designed by Sarah Bouvier and our theme music is by Neura-Flow.

Books

• The world is Yours: The Awakening by Thomas Lee Kurtis
• Financial Feminist by Tori Dunlap
• Artifice by Sharon Cameron

Media

• Power
• Bad Boys
• Matlock (2024)
• Sherlock Holmes (2009)

Other

• pvd-flowers.com - merchandise
• Co-Op Rhody