Ever hear of Guido Nincheri? How about Annie Smith Peck? No? Exactly. Know where to find the Madison Boulder or who winds the South Station clock? No? Join the club. 

Now, join the smaller club of New Englanders who know some really cool facts and stories about their region. From Boston to the White Mountains, Providence to Salem, Ted turns a spotlight on things that fascinate, amaze, and inspire.

Meet the man who faithfully keeps the clock high about South Station running on-time. (Well, actually three minutes fast.) Meet the woman who was an actual real-life Indiana Jones—and has a peak named after her in South America to prove it! Learn that none other than Rudyard Kipling spent four years in the hills of southern Vermont—and find out what drove him out, never to return. And be awed by the “Sistine Chapel of North America”—right there in downtown Woonsocket, Rhode Island. It’s all enough to make you say, “Who Knew?” Over and over again.

About Ted Reinstein: 

Since 1995, Ted Reinstein has been a reporter for Boston’s WCVB-TV’s “Chronicle,” the nation’s longest-running locally-produced nightly-newsmagazine. He has also been regular contributor to the station’s political roundtable show, “On the Record.” Ted has been a member of the WCVB editorial board since 2010.

Elsewhere on television, Ted hosted the premiere season of the Discovery Channel's “Popular Mechanics” show, and hosted a special on America’s lighthouses for HGTV. For the Travel Channel's photo/adventure series, “FreezeFrame,” he explored Hawaii's volcanoes, the caves of Puerto Rico, and the South Pacific islands of Tahiti. In 2002, he was part of a Chronicle team that received a prestigious National DuPont-Columbia Broadcast Journalism Award for Chronicle’s coverage of Boston’s Big Dig project. In 2018, he received an Emmy Award for his story on the “Good Night Lights” phenomenon in Providence, Rhode Island. 

His first book, New England Notebook: One Reporter, Six States, Uncommon Stories, was released in May, 2013 by Globe-Pequot Press. National Geographic Traveler named it one of its “Best Picks.,” He is also the author of Wicked Pissed: New England’s Most Famous Feuds (Globe Pequot Press/2015), and co-author, with his wife, Anne-Marie, of New England’s General Stores: Exploring an American Classic (GPP/Rowman-Littlefield, Fall 2017). His most recent book is Before Brooklyn: The Unsung Heroes Who Helped Break Baseball’s Color Barrier (Lyons Press/Fall 2021). 

Ted is a native of Winthrop, Massachusetts, and lives just west of Boston with his wife and two daughters.