You can't tell the history of Bridgeport without Jasper McLevy. Bridgeport's longest serving & only socialist mayor is well known for an incident of not plowing Bridgeport's streets, but his story is one of a lifetime of honest service to the city, in which he takes on and replaced corrupt administrations and political machines.

Author & Fairfield University Professor of Labor & Working-Class History Cecelia Bucki, Librarian & Archivist Jaime Pettit, & Librarian Adam Cleri explore Jasper McLevy, and socialism in Bridgeport & Connecticut.

For more on this topic, listen to Episode 5 of Bridgeport Unmasked (Revolutionary Connecticut by Andy Piascik)

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Clan Mother Shoran Piper joins Librarians Kate & Adam to share the past & present of the Paugussetts, whose ancestral lands include Bridgeport & areas of Fairfield County.

Thanks for listening to Bridgeport Unmasked. Want to make your own podcast? Beardsley Branch Library in Bridgeport has a podcast studio, open to anyone with a library card from a Connecticut city. For more information, see https://bportlibrary.org/podcast-studios/

Andy Piascik & Steve Thornton co-authored a collection of articles about the people's history of Connecticut, gathered in their book, Revolutionary Connecticut. Andy comes to the podcast studio to explore articles about Bridgeport; we talk about strikes, plays, HUAC hearings, Housatonic Community College, & more! 

Get Radical Connecticut at: hardballpress.com, bookshop.org, amazon.com 

 Articles on Bridgeport: bportlibrary.org/hc/grassroots-historians/

Thanks for listening to Bridgeport Unmasked. Want to make your own podcast? Beardsley Branch Library in Bridgeport has a podcast studio, open to anyone with a library card from a Connecticut city. For more information, see https://bportlibrary.org/podcast-studios/

In the late 1800s, abortion practitioner Nancy Guilford gets caught up in the death of a patient in Bridgeport, and then flees the country, before being returned to face her trial. Marcia Biederman comes into our podcast studio to talk about late 19th century intrigue, society, & medicine, as in her book, The Disquieting Death of Emma Gill. 

Thanks for listening to Bridgeport Unmasked. Want to make your own podcast? Beardsley Branch Library in Bridgeport has a podcast studio, open to anyone with a library card from a Connecticut city. For more information, see https://bportlibrary.org/podcast-studios/

In November 1974, bizarre things happened on a house on Lindley St. in Bridgeport—​can they be explained physically, were they the work of ghosts, or did they happen by something else entirely? This debate pits different explanations against each other in one of the Warrens' most famous paranormal investigations.

Thanks for listening to Bridgeport Unmasked. Want to make your own podcast? Beardsley Branch Library in Bridgeport has a podcast studio, open to anyone with a library card from a Connecticut city. For more information, see https://bportlibrary.org/podcast-studios/

Bridgeport Public Librarian Adam Cleri hosts talks & interviews on all things about Bridgeport, CT, the Park City!

In this episode, Library Assistant Mike Hawkins joins Librarian Adam to talk about actors (& others involved in cinematography) who were born in Bridgeport: Brian Dennehy, the Mitchums, & the Warrens. Join us for this podcast about those who went from...Bridgeport to Hollywood!

Also, in this episode, we bring up another podcast episode about the 1974 Lindley St. hauntings in Bridgeport. For more about this paranormal investigation, check out this episode of Amazing Tales with Mike Allen, featuring Bridgeport Public Librarian Jaime Pettit.
https://www.amazingtalesct.com/episodes/h55wndcp3wrbbmf-8n8k2

Thanks for listening to Bridgeport Unmasked. Want to make your own podcast? Beardsley Branch Library in Bridgeport has a podcast studio, open to anyone with a library card from a Connecticut city. For more information, see https://bportlibrary.org/podcast-studios/

Bridgeport Public Librarian Adam Cleri hosts talks & interviews on all things about Bridgeport, CT, the Park City!

Library Assistant Andre O'Connor joins Librarian Adam Cleri to talk about the murder of James Beardsley, the Bridgeport benefactor who donated over one-hundred acres of land to the city for public use...& was murdered by burglars invading his home. Who were these burglars? It remains a cold case, but...we have some ideas. Hear about this on this podcast about...The Death of Beardsley!

Thanks for listening to Bridgeport Unmasked. Want to make your own podcast? Beardsley Branch Library in Bridgeport has a podcast studio, open to anyone with a library card from a Connecticut city. For more information, see https://bportlibrary.org/podcast-studios/