Beardsley Park and Zoo Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo: the First Eighty Years, Established 1922, by DeMattia, Robin F. Virginia Beach, VA: The Donning Co. Publishers, 2002. Dolly Curtis Interviews: Dr. Howard Hochman, Veternarian for Beardsley Zoo, Bridgeport, CT, 2000 , . Easton, CT: Curtis/Cromwell Productions, 2000 Dolly Curtis Interviews: Greg ...
Charles Stratton "Have you seen Tom Thumb?", by Mabel Leigh Hunt. Illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg. Philadelphia, New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1942. 259 p. incl. front. (port.) illus. 21 cm. Notes: A biography of the midget entertainer who was a favorite attraction of the P.T. Barnum ...
By Eric D. Lehman A healthy child of over nine pounds, Charles Stratton was born in 1838 in north Bridgeport to a carpenter and a waitress. However, a faulty pituitary gland kept his growth slow. At age four, he was only twenty-five inches high, and would ...
In October of 1988, actor Beau Bridges visited the Bridgeport History Center to research a new role that he was taking on for television; the Life of P. T. Barnum. The actor visited the Bridgeport History Center and the Barnum Museum in order to research ...
As a senior citizen, P.T. Barnum was a man who never stopped working. He never really retired and he never took it easy. Barnum always found something new to work on. His life in Bridgeport offered a busy schedule--traveling with the circus, serving with the State Legislature, ...
By: Charles Brilvitch, Architectural Historian The Pembroke City Historic District is a 266-building Victorian residential neighborhood in a general two-block radius of Washington Park. Located on the east bank of the Pequonnock River opposite the city’s Downtown, the district is bounded on the North by Arctic ...
