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SLATERSVILLE: AMERICA'S FIRST MILL VILLAGE is a historical documentary series told across eleven episodes that retraces the two-hundred-year history of the first industrialized mill village created in Rhode Island, America.

"Innovation in Connecticut" is a feature documentary project delving into the rich tapestry of Connecticut's history of innovation, showcasing both established pioneers in various fields as well as emerging young innovators.

Indie-pop band Similar Kind reminisce their adolescent years and see how far they've gone to this day.

Amy Traverso and Richard Wiese travel to Nantucket with Lisa Birnbach, author of The Official Preppy Handbook. Lisa tells all about this iconic New England style while shopping at Murray's Toggery Shop, where you'll find the ultimate in preppie togs. Then it's onto Tamworth Distilling in New Hampshire's pristine White Mountains, where they've perfected the craft of turning local ingredients into delicious spirits. We then move onto one of Vermont's little known secrets, Little Fenway, a scaled down version of Boston's iconic park-and where families can take a Wiffle ball swing at the big Green Monster. And finally we travel south to Connecticut to visit the first and only Wiffle Ball factory, and see how those magical little spheres are made.

Some people are capable of the seemingly impossible. Whether surviving freezing temperatures, diving unfathomable depths on one breath, or lifting objects of mind-boggling weight, superhuman feats never cease to amaze. But how do these superhumans pull them off? Is it a matter of training, willpower, genetics, or something more mysterious?

After William Smith Slater and John Fox Slater have spent decades building their family fortunes in the second generation, the brothers make conscious decisions on the distribution of their wealth for both family and country. Their presence is largely felt between Providence and Warwick, Rhode Island and Jewett City and Norwich, Connecticut. The lives of their own children are heavily considered, while the education of African Americans following the Civil War is systematically weighed. Despite the controversial means by which they built their estates, they each execute constructive paths for their monies to be spent, the ripple effects of which are still felt today throughout America.