Bridgeport Unmasked
Bridgeport Public Librarian Adam Cleri hosts talks & interviews on all things about Bridgeport, CT, the Park City!
Episodes
12 episodes
Morningstar: the Library's Finance Database
Librarian Andre Massa joins Librarian Adam in the Beardsley Branch podcast room to talk about finances & the library's financial database Morningstar. Listen to this podcast to learn about Morningstar's financial tutorials, articles, search...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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43:21
Mayor Ganim on Bridgeport Organizations
Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim joins Librarian Adam Cleri to talk about happenings at extraordinary Bridgeport organizations.For more information about mentioned organizations:MIRA (Mayor's Initiative for Re-entry Affairs): https://www....
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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52:27
Food Pantries Open to Bridgeport Residents
UPDATE: As of Saturday, November 8, all SNAP benefits for November have been loaded onto the EBT cards of Connecticut SNAP recipients. Please note that this only applies to Connecticut residents, & may change from state to state. SNA...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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19:06
Why Get a Library Card?
Librarians Matthew Blaine & Adam Cleri talk about why you should get a library card: a Bridgeport card gets you access to books, computer use, & online resources, all for free, & those online resources include job searching, tutorin...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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32:35
Diego, Whynd, & the Block Island Ghost
Author Cat Urbain talks about her middle grade book, Diego, Whynd, & the Block Island Ghost, the story of two pre-teens who get into hijinks (natural & supernatural) on Block Island, an island just off of Long Island. This is t...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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41:00
Jasper McLevy: Bridgeport's Socialist Mayor (1933-1957)
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 t...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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51:59
Paugussett Clan Mother Shoran Piper
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.
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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51:25
Revolutionary Connecticut
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;...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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52:56
The Disquieting Death of Emma Gill
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 la...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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51:37
Ghosts on Lindley St.?: A Debate
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 ea...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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