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Florence Chandler Maybrick topic of CT history radio interview

I discussed the life of Florence Chandler Maybrick on an episode of radio show host Mike Allen’s CT history podcast.

A few months back I gave an interview recalling the life of Florence Chandler Maybrick to radio show host Mike Allen for his CT history series focusing on places of interest around the state, Amazing Tales from Off and On Connecticut’s Beaten Path.

A.P. photo of Florence’s bed after her death.

Mike’s telling of Florence’s story in Amazing Tales went live in November, when I was squeezing in a bit of necessary travel and unable to give it a proper introduction, so now I want to share it here.

The episode (“Did a Connecticut Woman Murder Jack the Ripper?”) is on Mike’s podcast site. To hear and download the episode, you have several options. Mike asks that you go onto his main podcast website, at the link following this paragraph, and follow the podcast.

Amazing Tales from Off and On Connecticut‘s Beaten Path

https://amazingtalesct.podbean.com/e/did-a-connecticut-woman-murder-jack-the-ripper/

If you prefer to download your podcasts from one of the following platforms, you can always set up your subscription through them instead — although I would appreciate the “follow” on Podbean if you don’t mind.

  • Google Podcasts

https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL0FtYXppbmdUYWxlc0NUL2ZlZWQueG1s

This episode, at 27 minutes (the longest one I’ve published) still can’t do justice to the full story.

Mike has now done several dozen episodes of Amazing Tales, and they are all worth giving a listen.

It was a pleasure sharing this bit of New Milford history with Mike, and he did an amazing job of getting to the bones of Florence’s biography.

FTR: my last name is pronounced with an ESS, not a SHH sound, as in SURname.

Stay safe, everyone.

 

Published by Ron Suresha

Ron Jackson Suresha is an editor, anthologist, and writer. He is considered an authority on emergent queer masculinities, in particular the subcultures of gay and bi male Bears and of male bisexuality. For Ron's service to the bear community, he was named "Bear of the Year" 2008. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Suresha attended the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, 1976-8), where he studied creative writing, and Vista College (Berkeley, Cal., 1989-92), where he studied American Sign Language. For more than two decades, he has worked as a freelance proofreader for trade book publishers such as Shambhala Publications. He was married in October 2004 to Rocco Russo. He is also a licensed Justice of the Peace in Connecticut, an ordained minister, ULC, and a member of the New London Green Party. Nonfiction works include Bears on Bears: Interviews & Discussions; Bi Men: Coming Out (coeditor, with Pete Chvany); Bisexual Perspectives on the Life and Work of Alfred C. Kinsey (editor). His latest book is The Uncommon Sense of the Immortal Mullah Nasruddin: Stories, jests, and donkey tales of the beloved Persian folk hero, published by Lethe Press.