The Bostock Wild Animal Show was booked into the Academy of Music for a week. At the end of the run, two caged lionesses were being lowered from an upper window to street level. The cage door broke open and the lions leaped out.
Tag: Cebra Quackenbush
CONNECTIONS: Wild West Show began on the streets of Pittsfield
Quackenbush furnished the capital for Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickok to appear at the Academy — actually outside the Academy on the streets of Berkshire County.
CONNECTIONS: Berkshires once enjoyed cutting-edge communications network
So why could we get the telegraph and telephone service to rural Berkshire County in the nineteenth century but cannot get broadband today? What is the problem and what is the solution?