Gray pigeons and squirrels trouble a leafless suburban street,chattering past gas stations and forgotten hopes, while gray people slouch in gloveless poverty, grime-spattered jalopies clattering through colorless slop. But some children remember that on the pine hill, hidden from the gray houses live yellow monkeys, screaming cosmic glee amidst make-believe jungles, that down the street live ...
By: Rob Novak, Bridgeport Fireman Some years ago, fellow firefighters showed me the following excerpt in the August 2004 edition of Firehouse magazine - “August 20 1904: Bridgeport, CT – An explosion during a fire in a powerhouse of the Burritt Lumber Company hurled two men, ...
By Michael Treadwell, May 1, 2018 In the last decade of the 19th Century Bridgeport experienced a traumatic event with their Police Department. The press referred to it as the police muddle. The dispute was unsettling for the individuals involved, and for the citizens of Bridgeport. In ...
By Rob Novak The Progressive Bridgeport Fire Department of 1912 One hundred years ago, the Bridgeport Fire Department was in a state of transition. Under the leadership of Fire Chief Edward Mooney, the department shed the last of its “call men” in December 1911, completing the process ...
