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Igniting Interest: Barnum’s Views on the Loco-Foco Party

As we have journeyed through our letter-reading odyssey, I’ve often felt that composing these blog posts from Barnum’s copybook was like weaving fabric, bringing together the threads of various tales and gradually seeing the stories, like patterns in woven cloth, emerge as my work progressed. Continue reading “PTB Letters (#73) Igniting Interest: Barnum’s Views on the Loco-Foco Party”

Barnum Video Du Jour!

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Join special host, Betsy Golden Kellem, and explore these new, minute long fascinating facts about P.T. Barnum, his life, times and extraordinary enterprises! Continue reading “Barnum Video Du Jour!”

Unexpected News

I guess it shouldn’t be surprising that as we get to the end of Barnum’s copybook we are left with some mysteries, that is to say questions that linger and may be unanswerable. Continue reading “PTB Letters (#72) Unexpected News”

Barnum Video Du Jour!

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A Special Feature Today!

BARNUM MUSEUM AWARDED A $500,000 SAVE AMERICA’S TREASURES GRANT

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I Entrust You with a Small Secret

As we draw toward the end of P. T. Barnum’s copybook, it is fitting that there are several letters in which he discusses returning to America.  In true Barnum fashion, the plan had a twist. Continue reading “PTB Letters (#71) I Entrust You with a Small Secret”

Barnum Video Du Jour!

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A Special Feature Today!

BARNUM MUSEUM AWARDED A $500,000 SAVE AMERICA’S TREASURES GRANT Continue reading “Barnum Video Du Jour!”

Instructive Entertainments: Early 19th Century Panoramas

Often there is no substitute for seeing an actual museum artifact from the past instead of its digital surrogate, especially if that artifact is a large-scale one.  Continue reading “PTB Letters (#70) Instructive Entertainments: Early 19th Century Panoramas”

Barnum Video Du Jour!

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Barnum Video Du Jour!

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Today’s episode:  Exploring the Life of A Woman in Ancient Egypt – The Barnum Museum Mummy Continue reading “Barnum Video Du Jour!”