New One-Woman One-Act Play: The Eyes of Old Bet
Years ago, I visited a friend in Somers, NY, and passed by a building called “The Elephant Hotel,” complete with a small elephant statue erected on a pole high in the air. (Skip to my one-woman play, THE EYES OF OLD BET) I asked my friend about it and she explained that in the early 1800s, a man with the last name of Bailey had acquired one the first or second elephant in America at his farm in Somers. Later, Bailey would go on to create a touring menagerie (aka, rudimentary circus) with this elephant and other exotic animals at the time.
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