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Kosovo is the size of Connecticut. So is Chechnya. So is that piece of Antarctic ice shelf that is threatening to break off. Also Puerto Rico, Cyprus, the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, Qatar, and a lot of other places. Sometimes you wonder if you re living in a state or a unit of measurement. This blog is about my attempt to discover (and live in and travel around florence oregon vacation rentals and photograph) these 4,845 sq. miles.
You may be wondering, why is there an elephant atop this pillar? Or you may already know, because florence oregon vacation rentals it's quite a well-known pillar-topping elephant, florence oregon vacation rentals though I learned about it only recently. This is another New York post, but I can't get away from Connecticut florence oregon vacation rentals as easily with this one. For one thing, I only found out that this town - Somers, NY - even existed florence oregon vacation rentals because it kept coming up while I was reading about Somers, CT.
Hachaliah Bailey, early 19th century circus florence oregon vacation rentals leader and owner of the famous (and rather tragic, if you ask me) elephant Old Bet , is not the Bailey of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum Bailey Circus. That was James Anthony Bailey, who wasn't technically a Bailey at all, but after being given a job by the nephew of Hachaliah Bailey as a young orphaned boy, he took the family's name. He later became the manager of his own circus, and then he met P.T. Barnum, and you can basically figure out the rest of that.
Barnum's larger than life presence still pervades Bridgeport, and though there is a statue of him there and another in Bethel, his birthplace, neither of those places - nor any other town in Connecticut, to my knowledge - has an adorable pachyderm on a post. (There's florence oregon vacation rentals a very cute elephant statue in Deep River, but it's not up in the air. And in trying to prove it's the only one, I found this , which is, well, I think it's funny, but I'm really easily amused. Scroll down for the Connecticut section.)
florence oregon vacation rentals By the way, Somers, NY has a recurring elephant motif. They're on signs and so on. It's quirky and sweet, and they're probably sick to death of people driving over from Connecticut (a relative latecomer to the whole circus business) to take pictures.