Connecticut miscellany: ESPN, the age of the reptiles, CowParade & more

A presidential portraitist, a two-headed calf and anational landmark that inspirescreativity-extraordinary tales abound in Connecticut from Hartford toBethlehem, from New Haven to Bristol and all points in between.

Learn about The Age of Reptiles-a 110-foot-long, 16-foot-high mural skillfullycrafted by painter Rudolph Zallinger at the Peabody Museum in New Haven.

Visitthe Goodspeed Opera House built along the Connecticut River in 1876.

Restoredin 1963, this small theater continues to bring East Haddam to Broadway.

Experience the first broadcast of world-renowned ESPN and its sprawling128-acre campus in Bristol.

Author and historian Wilson H. Faude chroniclesthese exciting tales and more in this eclectic collection of Connecticuthistory.