WICKED BRIDGEPORT!

Tuesday, Oct 29
6:30 pm - 7:45 pm

Join the Bridgeport Community Historical Society for an exciting (and spine-tingling?)  talk about the nefarious deeds committed in early in the history of our city! Librarian, Historian , and author of Wicked Bridgeport Michael Bielawa will tell all…or will he?  This program is free and will be held at the North Branch Library.

Beneath the smokestacks of the gritty cityscape of Bridgeport, Connecticut is the shocking criminal underbelly of this New England community. Sin and vice have long had a home on the shores of the Long Island Sound, and Bridgeport’s sinister past is littered with tales of pirates, mobsters, bizarre Victorian murders, and even rumors of a doctor’s attempts to reanimate the dead. Bielawa investigates such bizarre crimes as the unsolved murder of philanthropist James Beardsley, and the grisly discovery in Yellow Mill Pond during the 19th century, which helped legitimize forensic science. Join Bielawa as he navigates a precarious path through the unforgettably macabre and scandalous misdeeds of Bridgeport.