Bridgeport: Tales From the Park City highlights the most fascinating yarns from the history of Connecticut's largest metropolis. Bridgeport's most famous citizen, P.T. Barnum, was a consummate storyteller who wove fact and myth together. In this collection of historical narratives, we find true stories stranger than legends, wonders like an elephant plowing fields by the train station or a plane flying over Long Island Sound two years before the Wright Brothers. There are stories of old fashioned American gumption, triumph over the odds, and heart-breaking tragedy. But most of all, Tales From the Park City confirms how the people of this "arsenal of the nation" have always reached for the stars, because in Bridgeport, we live in the vanguard of the possible.