Today, we have ticker-tape parades to honor our favorite sports teams when they win the World Series or the Super Bowl. In 1915, New Yorkers had a welcoming parade to honor a chicken. A white single-comb leghorn hen named Lady Eglantine, to be exact. Mind you, this was not an ordinary hen. This was Addison […]
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1915: Lady Eglantine, the Hen That Received a Royal Roost at New York’s Imperial Hotel
Posted: 12th June 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Attractions, Birds and PigeonsTags: A.A. Christian, Cromwell Childe, Grand Central Palace, Hotel Imperial, Kitty Gordon, Lady Eglantine, New York History, Willard D. Rockefeller
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