Greetings, everyone! Here in Connecticut the weather has been like a steam bath this week, and few of us want to think about preparing meals while it is so hot. 

This week in our exploration of P. T. Barnum’s copybook letters from 1845, we’ll head back to New York City from France (virtually speaking) to revisit the discussion of a guidebook for visitors. 

Greetings, Everyone! This week I am happy to share the 15th installment in our blog series that explores P. T. Barnum’s letters written from France when he was in his mid-thirties, just at the time fame and fortune found him.

Last week’s blog drew from P. T. Barnum’s letters in the 1845 copybook that discuss the plays created for Gen. Tom Thumb, and these gave us some insights into his stage routines while on tour in France. 

Greetings, Everyone! I hope you are comfortably busy (or are “busy relaxing”) now we’ve swung into July.

P.T. Barnum’s famous protegee Charles Stratton, known to the world as Gen. Tom Thumb, was quite a young child when he was first introduced to European audiences in the mid-1840s.

Happy Fourth of July, everyone! I wish you all an enjoyable and safe holiday weekend—though this is a very different Fourth from all others in our history

Have you ever tried to envision a visit to Barnum’s American Museum?  I find it is a feat of the imagination to reconcile exterior pictures of the museum with the sheer quantity and variety of artifacts

Greetings, Everyone! Now that we are officially in the summer season, many of you have probably thought back to memorable trips and vacations in past years when we could safely travel and enjoy whatever leisure activities we wished.