'You have to look at his life through the lens of what the world was like almost 200 years ago.'
Councilmember Torres says a few constituents have told her that the library will always be “Barnum” to them. “For some of them, it’s the only name they’ve known,” she notes. “The library’s research uncovered stuff I didn’t know. I will go the direction of the community, but personally, I feel we could look at some really wonderful people and legacies for the name of this facility.”
P.T. Barnum was arguably the most famous person on the planet. His tours of Europe with attractions in tow, his traveling circus shows, his sensational museum in the heart of New York City, his brazen publicity stunts and best-selling, periodically updated autobiography all helped to catapult him to international celebrity. According to Robert Wilson’s, a 2019 warts-and-all study of the showman, when former President Ulysses S.
Born in Bethel, Connecticut, in 1810, Barnum grew up in a Yankee family of modest means. By the age of twelve, he was peddling lottery tickets and running his own candy concession at a family general store. In his early twenties he started a newspaper, the, and was promptly sued for libel three times. But it was another venture from his money-hungry youth that has triggered the most red flags among those seeking to rename the Ross-Barnum library.
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