Davis Dunavin
ReporterDavis Dunavin loves telling stories, whether on the radio or around the campfire. An Edward R. Murrow Award-winning and Peabody Award-nominated journalist, he is the host of WSHU's Off the Path and created and hosted the 2022 series Still Newtown. He also teaches classes in media studies at Sacred Heart University. He started in Missouri and ended up in Connecticut, which, he'd like to point out, is the same geographic trajectory taken by Mark Twain.
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Theodore Roosevelt wasn’t just a president; he was one of America’s great naturalists. He doubled the size of America’s national parks, and spent a lot of time outdoors, too —most famously as a rancher in North Dakota. But Roosevelt’s love of nature actually started in a cramped New York City brownstone, far from the fresh air and open spaces he would come to love and protect. -
Theodore Roosevelt is one of America’s most beloved presidents. He’s still an enduring symbol of vigor, energy and strength more than a century after his death. But he didn’t start that way. He was bedridden with asthma as a child in New York’s East Village. -
Back in the summer of 1989, a lot of weird little stickers appeared on the streets of Providence, Rhode Island. They were on walls, trash cans and utility poles. You’d find them outside bars, record stores and skate shops. They were all the same, a grainy black-and-white picture of a bulky scowling man, with the words: “Andre the Giant has a Posse.” -
The streets of Providence, Rhode Island were plastered with an unusual sticker in the summer of 1989. It was a grainy black-and-white picture of a bulky, scowling man, with the words: “Andre the Giant has a Posse.” The artist behind that sticker went on to leave a mark on American political history. Seriously.
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Conversations from the World Cafe joins the WSHU lineup this Saturday at 7 p.m.—a show where great music meets meaningful conversation, hosted by Raina Douris. -
It began with one of America's richest men jumping out of a moving train to trudge through the mud and scope out the property. It was the cultivating grounds for the 'queen of American etiquette,' Emily Post, as well as the most iconic men's suit in the modern world. This week, join us for a tour of Tuxedo Park, New York! -
Tuxedo Park in New York’s Hudson Valley was one of America’s first gated communities, a playground for the super-elite. So it’s no surprise it gave its name to that most ubiquitous of formal attire for men. -
Tuxedo Park in New York’s Hudson Valley has been a playground for the rich and famous for over a century. And it’s where a young Emily Post spent her summers. Tuxedo Park helped shape the woman who taught Americans the art of etiquette. -
In 1885, a multimillionaire playboy called a bunch of his wealthiest friends, with names like Astor and Vanderbilt. He had a proposition: How'd you like to buy a property in an exclusive retreat in the Ramapo Mountains? -
The state of Connecticut made a joint resolution in 2013 to celebrate the nation’s first powered flight, and it wasn’t by the Wright Brothers. Connecticut is the only state that recognizes a German immigrant as the first to fly. And one man built a replica to prove it.
