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Author Archives: Paul Willetts

3. Bostock’s Animal Arena (c.1910), part of the Dreamland amusement park on Coney Island, where Edgar Laplante worked. (Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints & Photographic Division)

Is Truth Stranger Than Fiction? It might be if you read about the talented Edgar Laplante

Posted on September 25, 2018September 26, 2018 by Paul Willetts

Is Truth Stranger Than Fiction? It might be if you read about the talented Edgar Laplante   It’s often said that truth is stranger than fiction. Nowhere is the validity of this tired old adage demonstrated more emphatically than in the adventures of the once world famous yet now little-known Jazz Age singing star, Edgar […]

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