Virtual Exhibitions

"At Christmas, in the same year, my children and grandchildren dined with me, and finding on 'counting noses,' that they would number the inevitable thirteen, I expressly arranged to have a high chair placed at the table, and my youngest grandchild, seventeen months old, was placed in it, so that we should number fourteen." PT Barnum's legacy continued through his grandchildren, one of whom would change his last name so that the name 'Barnum' would not die out. (EL 1989.35.1)