Wicked Bridgeport

Wicked Bridgeport
Author: Michael Bielawa
Publisher: Wicked
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781609493790

Join Bielawa as he navigates a precarious path through the unforgettably macabre and scandalous misdeeds of Bridgeport. 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. Historian Michael J. 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.

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Report
Author: Connecticut. Shellfish Commission
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Total Pages: 322
Release: 1912
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Publisher: Youguide International BV
Total Pages: 131
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Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard On You?

Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard On You?
Author: George Clinton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2014
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1476751080

Traces the funk music legend's rise from a 1950s barbershop quartet to an influential multigenre artist, discussing his pivotal artistic and business achievements with "Parliament-Funkadelic.".

New York Recentered

New York Recentered
Author: Kara Murphy Schlichting
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2019-04-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 022661302X

The history of New York City’s urban development often centers on titanic municipal figures like Robert Moses and on prominent inner Manhattan sites like Central Park. New York Recentered boldly shifts the focus to the city’s geographic edges—the coastlines and waterways—and to the small-time unelected locals who quietly shaped the modern city. Kara Murphy Schlichting details how the vernacular planning done by small businessmen and real estate operators, performed independently of large scale governmental efforts, refigured marginal locales like Flushing Meadows and the shores of Long Island Sound and the East River in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The result is a synthesis of planning history, environmental history, and urban history that recasts the story of New York as we know it.