On this episode of Our American Stories Dr Martin Couney carried a secret with him but the results are unimpeachable It was Coney Island in the early 's Beyond the Four-Legged Woman the sword swallowers and Lionel the Lion-Faced Man was an entirely different exhibit rows of tiny premature human babies living in glass incubators Here to tell the story is Dawn Raffel author of The Strange Case of Dr Couney How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies Fascinating mysterious and compelling written with great style and the energy of a can't-put-down thriller The Chicago Tribune Support
[... more]