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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Herman Melville’s classic novel Moby Dick follows Ishmael — a crew member on a whaling ship in the 1800s — and the maniacal Captain Ahab. The book was partially inspired by Melville’s time as a young whaler, when he set sail on a whaling voyage from New Bedford, Massachusetts.
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The town will host a festival for maritime music for the third year in a row, which was formerly held in Mystic, Connecticut.
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America's first submarine dates to the Revolutionary War. Built by a Connecticut inventor, it sailed into New York Harbor in 1776 with a mission to blow up a British warship. It was ahead of its time — maybe a little too ahead of its time. There are a few places you can see replicas of the Turtle — and one of them is at the Connecticut River Museum in Essex.
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One of the most successful pirates of all time died at sea in a dramatic storm, leaving all his treasure buried under the ocean floor. Hundreds of years later, a Cape Cod man followed a real-life treasure map to find it — and now you can go to his museum to see real-life pirate booty. Featured song: “Jolly Sailor Bold,” performed by the Ranzo Boys.
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Black Sam Bellamy was one of history’s most successful pirates. His most famous capture was a former slave ship called the Whydah — on which he lost his life during a fateful storm off the coast of Cape Cod.
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The new season of the popular, award-winning podcast explores the ocean, sea lore … and pirates.
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WSHU's Davis Dunavin begins this season with one of history's most notorious pirate ships — the Whydah Galley — and its captain, Black Sam Bellamy. He was one of history's most successful pirates until his dramatic death in a shipwreck off the coast of Cape Cod.
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Host Davis Dunavin previews his upcoming adventure at sea! Among other things, you’ll hear about quite a few pirates in this series, which is why we decided to call it Off the Plank.
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Under a bill that cleared the Connecticut House of Representatives, towns that allow more apartments near mass transit would get priority on state infrastructure funds.
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After a fiery crash shut down Interstate 95 in Norwalk on Thursday, Connecticut officials say the goal is to have the highway reopened by the morning rush hour commute on Monday, May 6.