Before 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
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Cool Blue Bridgeport Means Free Zoo Admission Saturdays For City Residents
News 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
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Bart Farts An Early Spring At Zoo
Where 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
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Free Zoo Admission For City Residents On Saturdays
Zoo 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
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Hog Wild For Harry’s Slop–Meet Zoo’s New Mayor
In 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
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Bicentennial Interview: He Talks To Animals, We Talk To Him–Zoo Director Gregg Dancho
Before 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.
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Beardsley Bart Is Never Wrong, Predicts Early Spring
From 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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For Gregg Dancho, Childhood Snakes And Frogs Transform Into Dream Job At Zoo
Gregg Dancho will talk to the animals. He’ll talk to people. Every now and then he’ll talk to himself. Forty years on the job will
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