News release from the zoo: Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo is 100 years old, and is holding a Birthday Bash for its Centennial Celebration on Saturday, June
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News release from the zoo: Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo is 100 years old, and is holding a Birthday Bash for its Centennial Celebration on Saturday, June
Read moreBefore there was a zoo a golf course occupied the terrain of Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo. Circa 1920, then-journalist Ed Sullivan who’d become the celebrated variety
Read moreNews release from Mayor’s Office: Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo is joined by City officials to invite Bridgeport residents to “Cool Blue Bridgeport,” a virtual and on-grounds
Read moreWhere would we be without eternal optimist Beardsley Bart? Celebrating the zoo’s 100th anniversary year, the prairie dog sage jolted us this morning with an
Read moreZoo news: Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo will launch “Cool Blue Bridgeport” a virtual and on-grounds educational program on climate change in combination with free admission to
Read moreIn the old days, Bridgeport’s mayor served a one-year term. That changed around 1900 when election became a two-year term. In 1998 Bridgeport electors, in
Read moreBefore Gregg Dancho became director, Bridgeport’s Beardsley Zoo, now formally called Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo, was not nationally accredited by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums.
Read moreFrom Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo: Who needs Punxsutawney Phil when you have ‘Beardsley Bart?’ Beardsley Bart, Connecticut’s own Prognosticating Prairie Dog, dug out from a snowstorm
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