The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

The Original Connecticut-Man [from the New York Times]

Swinton. "The Original Connecticut-Man [from the New York Times]." New-York Saturday Press, August 11, 1860, 3.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
journalism
Abstract

A once prominent archaeologist and scientist is persistent in gaining a hearing on his finding of a seven foot, four fingered, three toed sub-human being. But the scientific community takes this absurd finding as a joke.