The Bridgeport Post

Est. 1883. Bridgeport, Connecticut.

In the booming factory city of P.T. Barnum — showman, mayor, and Bridgeport's most famous son — a scrappy young daily was born in 1883. It called itself the Daily Post, and it grew up with the city itself: Evening Post, Bridgeport Evening Post, and finally, in 1906, the name that would anchor Connecticut's largest city for nearly a century — The Bridgeport Post.

For 86 years, the Post was Bridgeport. It chronicled the brass works and the machine shops, the sewing machines and the rifles, the shipyards and assembly lines that made this harbor city one of the great engines of American industry. It reported the rise of the immigrant neighborhoods, the election of a Socialist mayor who would govern for a generation, the wartime booms, and the long, hard unwinding that followed. Morning and evening, decade after decade, the Post carried the record.

In 1988 it absorbed its longtime morning partner, the Bridgeport Telegram. And then, in June 1992, something quieter than a closure happened: the paper took a new name — the Connecticut Post — and the Bridgeport masthead, after more than a century of service, was retired.

The paper survived. The name did not. This volume restores it.

Inside this Living Archive edition:

1883 — the Daily Post, a young paper in Barnum's Bridgeport
The names it wore: Evening Post, Bridgeport Evening Post, and the 1906 birth of The Bridgeport Post
The industrial century — brass, machines, munitions, and the workers who built them
The Post and the Telegram: Bridgeport's morning-evening partnership, united in 1988
June 1992 — the renaming, and how a historic city masthead quietly vanished from the newsstands
The revival — how this masthead lives again under new ownership, preserved and restored through artificial intelligence

Part of the Living Archive Series from Shumake Media Group — rescuing America's great newspapers from silence, one masthead at a time.

The city kept its paper. Now it gets its name back.

About the Author
Robert S. Shumake, publishing as Ajarn Shaman Shu, has lived two lives in one — the builder and the priest — and his books are where the two meet. He rose from a Ford factory floor to become founding president and CEO of Inheritance Capital Group, a Black Enterprise-ranked private equity firm, served as honorary consul for Botswana and Tanzania, and founded Inheritance Media Group, owner of more than 300 publications produced by an AI-run newsroom. In spirit, each tradition that initiated him gave him a name: Buddhist Ajarn in the Theravada and Vajrayana lines, Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola in Ifá, and Shri Surya Narayana Swamikal in the Tamil Siddha line. He is the founder of Soul Tribes International Ministries and of Buddha Digital Temple and its universities — Orisha University, Buddha University, and Shiva University. He authored Detroit’s Proposal E, the 2021 ballot initiative that decriminalized entheogenic plants in Detroit, and is the author of more than 140 published books and 86+ DOI-registered academic publications. His philosophy: the Double Bottom Line — make a profit, and make a difference. Robertshumake.biz