Alice Clark Brown, Trailblazing Black Circus Aerialist and Performer, Dies at 68
When Alice Clark Brown told her family she was going to leave college and join the circus in 1972, they were shocked. But after catching “the showbiz bug” as a child in Washington Park, ...
published: 6/30/2021
Salvaging the circus: Unique artifacts saved from historic Peru circus barns before demolition
PERU — No one knows why exactly the circus elephant named Big Charley killed his trainer. But there's no mystery on how he killed him.....
Today, the rock on which the trainer was dashed has ...
by Carson Gerber Kokomo Tribune | published: 5/27/2021
Tears From the Clowns
Circus Performers Bid Farewell to Their Priest
WOBURN — When the final prayers had been said and the body had been blessed, the man in the sequined red-tailed ringmaster's costume stepped up at the graveside and summoned the deep, baritone ...
by By Thomas Farragher Globe Columnist,Updated May 12, 2021 | published: 5/16/2021
Circus train car comes home
If only Rollins Coakley were still alive to see the latest addition to the Venice Train Depot — a former train car that once served The Greatest Show on Earth — which literally put ...
by KIM COO | published: 3/24/2021
