Bridgeport: Tales from the Park City

by Eric D. Lehman

2021-05-31 20:44:53

In the late nineteenth century, P.T. Barnum was known worldwide for his traveling circus, but to the city of Bridgeport he meant much more. The city''s mayor and benefactor, Barnum was also a mastermind at urban planning. Thus, amid Bridgeport''s gro... Read more
In the late nineteenth century, P.T. Barnum was known worldwide for his traveling circus, but to the city of Bridgeport he meant much more. The city''s mayor and benefactor, Barnum was also a mastermind at urban planning. Thus, amid Bridgeport''s growing industrial factories, orchestras played from the bandstand at Seaside Park and bucolic hills surrounded Bunnell''s Pond. In this collection of narratives, Eric D. Lehman captures the city''s natural beauty and richly eccentric history. From the brave women of the Black Rock Lighthouse to war heroes of ''the nation''s arsenal'', from ''the tiniest general'', Tom Thumb, to the tragic death of Jumbo the elephant, these are the best stories from Connecticut''s ''Park City.'' Less

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ISBN9781596296169
David K. Leff is an award-winning essayist, former deputy commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, and poet laureate, town meeting moderator, and historian of Canton, Co...

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