Part I of a Brooklyn Cow Tale Some suggest that animals have a greater sense of imminent danger than people do. Did the Greenpoint cow in this true New York story have a sixth sense that allowed her to predict her sorrowful future, and thus, take action to try to prevent the final outcome? The […]
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1901: The Greenpoint Cow That Hailed a Cab at the Waldorf-Astoria
Posted: 28th July 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Stories, Cows and Cattle StoriesTags: Earl of Abingdon, Greenpoint, Greenwich Wheelmen, Hunter's Point, New York History, Richard Amos, Waldorf-Astoria
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1912: The French Chickens Who Went Down With the Titanic
Posted: 22nd June 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Animal StoriesTags: Animals on the Titanic, Briarcliff Lodge, Briarcliff Manor, Ella Holmes White, John Hall Hutchinson, Marie Grice Young, New York History, Titanic
On April 15, 1912, the Titanic sank off the coast of Newfoundland. Of the 2,228 passengers and crew members who had set sail across the Atlantic Ocean to New York, we know that only 705 survived.
What many may not know is that several roosters, hens, and chicks were also making the journey on the ship’s maiden voyage. They never reached their new home in Briarcliff Manor, New York.
