What can you say about Bloodroot founders Selma Miriam, Noel Furie and all the culinary ambassadors that have made the landmark feminist vegetarian restaurant and
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Tag: Bob Fredericks
An Interview With 92-Year-Old City Treasure Kaye Williams, Founder Of Captain’s Cove Seaport
Kaye Williams, the visionary who turned a city-run dump of a boatyard into Captain’s Cove Seaport, one of the region’s premier tourist draws, with its
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Diversity, Equity, Creativity: A Conversation With Suzanne Kachmar, Executive Director Of City Lights
In 2021, Bridgeport’s bicentennial, we will feature interviews with personalities from all walks of life who bleed Bridgeport. Some of them you know, some you’ll
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Bull Durham Retires His Connecticut Law Enforcement Horns
Corrupt pols, crooked FBI agents, violent drug gangs, mobsters, tramps, thieves, demagogues, assassins: John Durham was the prosecutor defense attorneys didn’t want probing their targeted
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Happy Bicentennial Bridgeport–200 Years–Oh, Those Damned Bridges
What, Bridgeport 200 years old? You bet your absentee ballot it is. How did that happen? It’s the spring of 1821, Bridgeport was a borough
Read moreRecalling 40 Cent Drafts At Dolan’s, Vacant Building Hit By Fire
Update, video: If you wanted to know what Bridgeport was like in the 1940s, Dolan’s Bar and Grill at Middle and Golden Hill streets next
Read moreFredericks In New York Post State Of Mind, Leaves Connecticut Post
It was a helluva three months for Bob Fredericks in his return to the Connecticut Post as managing editor–storm Sandy, election coverage and then helping direct Hearst
Read moreSurfin’ Safari! Veteran Post Reporter Sues Employer, Claims Age Discrimination
Veteran Connecticut Post reporter Anne Amato, still on the payroll, is suing the Hearst Corporation, the paper’s owner, for picking on old scribes. Is this
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