Bridgeport Unmasked

Derek Oxley, the Pod Doctor, sits down with Librarian Andre Massa to talk about what goes into making a podcast: writing, research, editing, promoting, and more--and discovering and developing those stories that drives the creation of a podcast.

Librarian Andre Massa sits down with Gerlene Valentine & Jay Misencik, who have been taking professional photos of everyday life in Bridgeport, for decades. They currently run the Bridgeport Portrait Project, in which they take photos of people who represent the city of Bridgeport. Listen here for their stories about life, & snapping pics of life in Bridgeport over the years. Want more inf...

Librarian Andre Massa sits down with Eddie Martinez, a lifelong Bridgeport native who works as a professional development coach, motivational speaker, & podcaster. Join us to hear him explain his work & life in Bridgeport, including growing up in East Side & doing work with the Puerto Rican Parade of Fairfield County, & about his upcoming podcast & daily morning news report on...

Librarian Adam sits down with Claude Clayton Smith, an author who writes about the Paugussetts, the tribe whose ancestral lands include Bridgeport. We discuss three of his books: The Stratford Devil , his novel featuring settlers and Indigenous people around colonial Stratford; The Quarter-Acre of Heartache , following Chief Big Eagle's efforts to keep the Paugussett reservation in tribal han...

Librarian Andre Massa joins Librarian Adam in the Beardsley Branch podcast room to talk about finances & the library's financial database Morningstar. Listen to this podcast to learn about Morningstar's financial tutorials, articles, search engine, & charts of investments' performances, & to learn as Librarian Andre explains way to finance, how to research, & the imp...

Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim joins Librarian Adam Cleri to talk about happenings at extraordinary Bridgeport organizations. For more information about mentioned organizations: MIRA (Mayor's Initiative for Re-entry Affairs): https://www.bridgeportct.gov/government/departments/mayors-initiative-reentry-affairs Bridgeport International Academy bridgeportacademy.org DSSD/Colorful Bridgeport colorfu...

UPDATE: As of Saturday, November 8, all SNAP benefits for November have been loaded onto the EBT cards of Connecticut SNAP recipients. Please note that this only applies to Connecticut residents, & may change from state to state. SNAP recipients do not need to take any action, as benefits have already been loaded to EBT cards. More pantries available at https://www.ctfoodshare.org/find-food  h...

Librarians Matthew Blaine & Adam Cleri talk about why you should get a library card: a Bridgeport card gets you access to books, computer use, & online resources, all for free, & those online resources include job searching, tutoring, audiobooks, movies, & much more. Also, we talk about library buildings as free spaces for the public to use.

Author Cat Urbain talks about her middle grade book, Diego, Whynd, & the Block Island Ghost, the story of two pre-teens who get into hijinks (natural & supernatural) on Block Island, an island just off of Long Island. This is the first episode of New Books Network in Bridgeport, all about area authors.

You can't tell the history of Bridgeport without Jasper McLevy. Bridgeport's longest serving & only socialist mayor is well known for an incident of not plowing Bridgeport's streets, but his story is one of a lifetime of honest service to the city, in which he takes on and replaced corrupt administrations and political machines. Author & Fairfield University Professor of Lab...

Clan Mother Shoran Piper joins Librarians Kate & Adam to share the past & present of the Paugussetts, whose ancestral lands include Bridgeport & areas of Fairfield County.

Andy Piascik & Steve Thornton co-authored a collection of articles about the people's history of Connecticut, gathered in their book, Revolutionary Connecticut . Andy comes to the podcast studio to explore articles about Bridgeport; we talk about strikes, plays, HUAC hearings, Housatonic Community College, & more!  Get Radical Connecticut at: hardballpress.com, bookshop.org, amazon.co...

In the late 1800s, abortion practitioner Nancy Guilford gets caught up in the death of a patient in Bridgeport, and then flees the country, before being returned to face her trial. Marcia Biederman comes into our podcast studio to talk about late 19th century intrigue, society, & medicine, as in her book, The Disquieting Death of Emma Gill . 

In November 1974, bizarre things happened on a house on Lindley St. in Bridgeport—​can they be explained physically, were they the work of ghosts, or did they happen by something else entirely? This debate pits different explanations against each other in one of the Warrens' most famous paranormal investigations.

Bridgeport Public Librarian Adam Cleri hosts talks & interviews on all things about Bridgeport, CT, the Park City! In this episode, Library Assistant Mike Hawkins joins Librarian Adam to talk about actors (& others involved in cinematography) who were born in Bridgeport: Brian Dennehy, the Mitchums, & the Warrens. Join us for this podcast about those who went from...Bridgeport to Holly...

Bridgeport Public Librarian Adam Cleri hosts talks & interviews on all things about Bridgeport, CT, the Park City! Library Assistant Andre O'Connor joins Librarian Adam Cleri to talk about the murder of James Beardsley, the Bridgeport benefactor who donated over one-hundred acres of land to the city for public use...& was murdered by burglars invading his home. Who were these burglars...