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Willimantic

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Nov 10, 2026

ReeseHOST
7:43
You don't have to be a celebrity for me to interview you.
ReeseHOST
7:46
You could be any cornball sitting in Willimantic.
ReeseHOST
7:51
I'd be happy to sit here with you and have a conversation in front of this audience.
ReeseHOST
7:56
No one fears you.
Fran StorchHOST
10:38
I haven't found out if...
Fran StorchHOST
10:41
They're doing Thriller again in Willimantic.
Fran StorchHOST
10:43
And if they do, I might go.
Fran StorchHOST
10:45
So that would be exciting if they did.
Sookie SooksonHOST
45:14
Now, leaving Hume's household for a bit, when it came to fame, William Cullen Bryant, a famous poet and editor of the New York Evening Post, had even witnessed one of Hume's seances later on.
Sookie SooksonHOST
45:27
You see, the 18-year-old Hume stayed with a friend in Willimantic, Connecticut, and later, Lebanon, Connecticut.
Sookie SooksonHOST
45:34
Hume held his first seance in his birthday month, March 1851, which I can also just say, spooky stuff tends to happen in March.
Sookie SooksonHOST
45:44
I don't know why that is.
Mark A. JohnstonHOST
19:25
19-year-old Johnny Cooney was pitching for the Willamantic team of the American Thread Athletic Association.
JeffHOST
19:33
The Willamette? Willimantic.
JeffHOST
19:37
Oh, Willimantic.
JeffHOST
19:37
I was like, you're from the Pacific Northwest, Mark.
JeffHOST
19:39
You know how to say Willimantic.
Mark A. JohnstonHOST
19:41
The Willimantic team of the American Thread Athletic Association.
Mark A. JohnstonHOST
19:45
This is an industrial baseball league.
JeffHOST
19:47
Okay.
George AustinGUEST
8:46
He's helped me out from time to time, and he likes to call – he hates the fact that I like to, as he puts it, boombox.
George AustinGUEST
8:53
That comes from the boombox parade in Willimantic.
George AustinGUEST
8:56
But the most fun part for me is working the sidelines, meeting everyone at parades.
George AustinGUEST
9:02
I didn't let their – Anyone who would shake my hand, I made sure I didn't miss anyone, and that leads to really good follow-up conversations.
Fran StorchHOST
6:19
If you just celebrate it by putting on costumes and running around.
Fran StorchHOST
6:24
In Willimantic on Halloween evening, all the shops stay open and kids can, people, kids and adults can come and trick or treat.
Fran StorchHOST
6:34
I haven't found out if Oswaldo is going to lead People in Dancing Thriller again on the streets of Willimantic, which I think that somebody filmed that from upstairs in one of the buildings and it went viral.
Fran StorchHOST
6:50
And I was in it with them.
Fran StorchHOST
6:52
Not that I had practiced with them.
Fran StorchHOST
6:57
And so I don't know if that's happening, but I should check and find out if that's going on.
Fran StorchHOST
7:02
But it might be happening.
Fran StorchHOST
7:03
So if you're interested in going to Downtown Willimantic at night on October 31st, you can do that.
Phil JakesPANELIST
69:26
He
Jesse GleasonHOST
69:26
was born in Willimantic, Connecticut.
Jesse GleasonHOST
69:29
You know that? What? Yeah.
Jesse GleasonHOST
69:31
He was born in Willimantic, Connecticut.
Jesse GleasonHOST
69:33
Yeah, he moved to.
Jesse GleasonHOST
69:34
No wonder
Fran StorchHOST
7:06
So my options were to go to this.
Fran StorchHOST
7:09
There's two in Willimantic and then there's the one up in stores.
Fran StorchHOST
7:12
And I was trying to decide which I wanted to go to or try to get hold of Dr. LaGuardia and see if he would fit me in.
Fran StorchHOST
7:19
But I thought, you know what, let me try the urgent care.
Fran StorchHOST
7:26
So that was good information.
Fran StorchHOST
7:28
So, you know, if you need something quick and the copay is all the same, you can go to the urgent care.
Fran StorchHOST
7:33
Anyway, so I chose the one in Willimantic because it was convenient and has better parking than the one in stores, even though the one at UConn, very nice, very circle.
Fran StorchHOST
7:43
I've always had a good experience there.

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