Did you know Oshawa may have received cannon fire from an American ship in the War of 1812?\u00a0 What about the fact that Oshawa’s first police chief also wrote a gossip column for the local newspaper?<\/p>\n
History often best comes to life when it’s told through the stories of the people who lived it and that’s the work of local artist Eric Sangwine in a nutshell.\u00a0 For this episode, we convened in front of a live audience at\u00a0Kops’ Records<\/a>\u00a0in downtown Oshawa for a discussion facilitated by history enthusiast Claudio Faria, Eric, and\u00a0Oshawa Museum<\/a>\u00a0curator, Melissa Cole.\u00a0 What you’re about to hear is a fun, wide-ranging and markedly non-linear telling of some niche parts of the history of Oshawa; we hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n In the recording, the group refers often to some of Eric\u2019s paintings, so here\u2019s a little slideshow of some of the works in question:<\/p>\n [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”18″ gal_title=”Eric Sangwine Paintings”]<\/p>\n If you enjoyed this episode, please be sure to subscribe, so you never miss a new upload, and leave us a 5-star review, which helps us grow and reach new people, enabling us to bring you more top-quality content. Thanks for listening!<\/p>\n LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE EPISODE NOW:<\/strong><\/p>\n