April 15: The Middletown Man Who Built the First Transcontinental Railroad – But in Another Country.

April 15: The Middletown Man Who Built the First Transcontinental Railroad – But in Another Country.

https://todayincthistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Apr-15-TodayinCTHist.mp3   Back when they taught such things in the classroom, many Connecticans learned this palindrome (a phrase that says the exact same thing read backwards or forwards) in geography class: ” A Man, A Plan, A Canal: Panama.” What we were not taught, though, is that men made plans to make transportation across Panama a reality over a half a century before the Panama Canal…