HeyJaredTrout Brook Tales
Exploring people, places and events throughout West Hartford's rich history.
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 2
- Latest publication
- Sep 7, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 30, 2026
Latest episodes
Episode 17: The Wells Fargo Armored Services Robbery of September 12, 1983 (opens the original)
Read excerpt
On September 12, 1983, guard Victor Gerena walked out of the Wells Fargo Armored Services depot in West Hartford with over $7 million in cash - the largest cash robbery in American history at the time. Joining host Chuck Coursey to unpack it is the Hartford Courant's Edmund Mahoney, who knows this case better than anyone else . The heist was tied to Los Macheteros, a clandestine group fighting for Puerto Rican independence, and Gerena vanished that same day — spending longer on the FBI's Ten Mos
Episode 16: Fairview Cemetery (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Join TBT Podcast host Chuck Coursey and West Hartford Town Historian Mary Donohue, who shares her extensive research on Fairview Cemetery. Together they explore the 71-acre "lawn plan" landscape and the notable figures buried there—from Nobel laureate Dr. John Franklin Enders to Governor Robert Hurley and aviation pioneer Frederick Rentschler.
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.