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Before TV, there was Barnum In the 1800s, P. T. Barnum knew how to thrill Americans
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BRIDGEPORT, CT. -- From Boston, it takes about 3 hours in a car to
travel 100 years back in time, to an era when America's greatest
huckster enthralled audiences with midgets, mummies, mermaids and a
two-headed calf. The Barnum Museum, legacy of the one and only
Phineas Taylor Barnum, tells the story of the legendary promoter
whose magnificent, bizarre exhibitions were the first in this
country to appeal to rich and poor alike.
Denizens of the late 20th century, numbed by an almo...
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