For composer, musician and artist Donald Rubinstein, imagining the persona of a 1940s' pianist named Jeremy Bonafide, the hero of Rubinstein's latest CD, Circus Boy, was to come to grips with his own ...
It took only one spark to destroy an entire circus. On Feb. 20, 1940, a fire destroyed the main building of the Cole Brothers & Robbins circus winter headquarters in Rochester in Fulton County. The ...
Francisco García loved hearing his dad talk about his life with La Carpa García, the famed tent circus that the family ran. His father talked about his childhood job selling peanuts at performances ...
REDLANDS >> As the success of the YMCA’s Great Y Circus continued to grow through its early beginnings, the 1940s and 1950s brought much change. The circus went dark between 1943 and 1948 because of ...
When we stumbled across this image, we were flummoxed. Taken in the 1940s by legendary photographer Joseph Janney Steinmetz, it depicts a game of croquet being played on an indoor court, with a number ...
Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.
Dubbed “The Greatest Show on Earth,” the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus was a force after the two acts merged in 1919. Sarasota became the winter quarters for the Ringling Circus in 1927, ...