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		<title>Santa Gives Out His Loot</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/Witkowski/2011/12/29/santa-gives-out-his-loot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Witkowski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Photo by Al Mathewson Christmas 1938 was a tough year for America. The last years of the Depression were difficult ones for the citizens of Bridgeport, and especially the children.  Standing in the Second Precinct Children eagerly waited for a visit from Santa Claus to the city.  Jasper McLevy was on hand to greet Saint Nick, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gustave Whitehead</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/Witkowski/2011/07/27/gustave-whitehead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Witkowski</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[aviation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[first in flight]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[1874-1927 Bridgeport resident Gustave Whitehead made his first solo flight August 14, 1901.  Why is he not known as the &#8220;Father of Flight?&#8221;   This year marks the 110th anniversay of Gustave Whitehead&#8217;s  historic flight. One of the best articles on Whitehead&#8217;s flight appeared in Popular Aviation magazine in January 1934, with the headline, &#8220;Did Whitehead Precede [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World War I Bridgeport</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/Witkowski/2011/05/06/world-war-i-bridgeport/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 19:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Witkowski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bridgeport had a great deal to rejoice about on July 4, 1919. Most of the troops were home from the World War, and the Treaty of Versailles had been signed in June. Everyone came out to celebrate, including the troops that had returned from overseas. The City of Bridgeport sponsored a Service Recognition Week, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lewis Latimer, African American Inventor</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/Witkowski/2011/02/09/lewis-latimer-african-american-inventor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Witkowski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By:  Mary K. Witkowski, Bridgeport City Historian Lewis Latimer 1848-1928 Three famous inventors – Alexander Graham Bell, Hiram Maxim and Thomas Edison – owe their successes, in part, to a young, African-American inventor who lived on Bridgeport’s South End, among a rich population of Irish, African-American, Hungarian and other ethnic groups. Lewis Latimer lived on Whiting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quilts Connect City to the Rural South</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/Witkowski/2011/01/27/quilts-connect-city-to-the-rural-south/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Witkowski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bendolph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gee's Bend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gee's bend alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moseley]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pettway]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many Bridgeport residents have strong ties to the farming community in Alabama known as Gee&#8217;s Bend. Gee&#8217;s Bend was part of a larger plantation on the Alabama River that came into existence aound 1830.  After the Civil War, when the former slaves were given the option to own their own land in the area, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes Virginia, There is a Blizzard</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/Witkowski/2010/12/28/yes-virginia-there-is-a-blizzard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Witkowski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Yes, Virginia, there is a blizzard&#8230;and it is here now!  And historically speaking, its not the first time either! Here are historical (not hysterical thoughts about blizzards of Bridgeport&#8217;s past): On March 11, 1888, the entire Northeast was struck by a winter storm. The wind and snow caused huge drifts to make it impossible to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bridgeport Presidential Visits</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/Witkowski/2010/10/29/bridgeport-presidential-visits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Witkowski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excitement!  President Obama is coming to town! The question has arisen several times over the last few weeks&#8230;what presidents came to visit Bridgeport over the years?  We know that George Washington, our first president came here ins 1789. And Presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln came to Bridgeport in 1860 and had his first plate of fried oysters. Before becoming President, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Pelton</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/Witkowski/2010/10/21/robert-pelton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Witkowski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Left to Right: Unknown, James J. Managan,III, Mayor Leonard S. Paoletta and Robert S. Pelton, Curator. Reviewing the reovation plans 1984. Photograph Bridgeport History Center, Bridgeport Public Library   In 1987, when I first started my job, as a native of Michigan, I did not know anything about Bridgeport,Connecticut other than the fact that P.T. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bridgeport History Highlight</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/Witkowski/2010/10/19/bridgeport-history-highlight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Witkowski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[See www.bridgeportpubliclibrary.org for further information as the year continues.   From the 1936 Bridgeport Municipal Register: &#8220;On November 20, 1935 the library opened to the public a room dedicated to the memory of the late Henry A. Bishop who was the president of the Board of Directors of the library nine years.  This room contains historical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baldwin Plaza Named After Former Governor</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/Witkowski/2010/10/07/baldwin-plaza-named-after-former-governor/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/Witkowski/2010/10/07/baldwin-plaza-named-after-former-governor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Witkowski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Directly behind what was then the new state courthouse building, a plaza costing around $1million collars was built.  Dedicated at a ceremony on October 10, 1974, the plaza was named after former Connecticut governor Raymond E. Baldwwin Sr. The ceremony was held in the new plaza, with then mayor Nicholas Panuzzio giving former Governor Baldwin [...]]]></description>
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