The ABCD Cultural Arts Center was a creative and social hub of Bridgeport in the 1960s and 70s. The Arts Center occupied a space at the intersection of visual arts and music, and politics and community activism. Thanks to a generous grant from Connecticut Humanities, ...
SEASIDE PARK Seaside Park comprises two and one-half miles of gently curving shoreline on Long Island Sound. Long considered one of New England's premier urban parks and Bridgeport's "front yard," it has an important place in the annals of American landscape and social history. For here ...
By Michael J. Bielawa “One of paranormal history’s most bizarre, worldwide, phenomena traces its origin directly to downtown Bridgeport.” M. Bielawa Sci-Fi fans will readily recall the brilliant Twilight Zone episode penned by Rod Sterling, The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. This television fantasy postulates the frightening ...
By Mary Witkowski In these days of analyzing confusing elections and examining consequential figures in our past, people who cleared a path for our future stand out. Margaret E. Morton had an extraordinary career in Connecticut politics that was sparked by her role in a Bridgeport ...
By Carolyn Ivanoff Reading a newspaper you can witness the first draft of history from world to local news. In the spring of 1915 the sinking of the Lusitania factored largely in headlines along with the war in Europe. Local and national labor news would also ...
By Lennie Grimaldi Donald Trump placed his right hand on the shoulder of a model – tall, blonde, striking, must have been 22 – and with his left hand steered Joe Ganim by the shoulder, easing the two together. “Let me introduce you to a friend ...
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 Stephen Thornton On stage at Bridgeport’s Park Theater in the fall of 1944 stood “Republico, The Little Mechanical Man.” He was an empty-headed dummy that the stage barker described as “handy, dandy, and works like a whiz.” With his slick hair and neat mustache, the ...
Think times are tough now? Imagine what it was like during World War II, when rationing meant you couldn't always buy the goods you wanted. Many of the commodities we take for granted today were in short supply during World War II, because of the needs ...
