Discover the shocking truth behind P.T. Barnum's Feejee mermaid and its role in publicity stunts like Discovery's Shark Week. P.T. Barnum's Feejee mermaid—perhaps Animal Planet will feature it in ...
Drops in the Vase is presenting the World Premiere of FEEJEE MERMAID by Clay McLeod Chapman. FEEJEE MERMAID is set on the eve of the 19th Annual International Taxidermy Championships. See photos from ...
Clay McLeod Chapman digs into the dusty steamer trunk of mono-stories from his cult indie theater fave The Pumpkin Pie Show, resuscitating some old faves to send chills down the audience's spine ...
The Smithsonian Institution got its start during an era in which P.T. Barnum was running a scientific “institute” of his own, but Kasey Sease points out that the two museums were never competitors in ...
From my vantage point in the corner of the room, I watch dozens of people lay eyes upon the Feejee Mermaid for the first time. Each person steps up to the exhibition table, radiating enthusiasm. Each ...
Although it helped make him a fortune, Phineas Taylor Barnum admitted that he wasn’t too proud of the spectacle: this tiny monkey severed at the waist and stitched to the mummified tail of a fish. But ...
The Mermaid, Woolly Horse, Ploughing Elephants, etc., were merely used by me as skyrockets or advertisements, to attract attention and give notoriety to the Museum and such other really valuable ...
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