It’s a great offer from the “Greatest Show on Earth.” The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is celebrating 200 years of the circus in America by offering every child born in 1993 a unique ...

Just outside the flaps of the big top, the roustabouts pulled bright purple, gold and red costumes over their coveralls and donned huge painted Mardi Gras heads. Barry Sloan kept watch, peering over ...

Time was generous and cruel to my great-uncle Nathan. Though granting him 97 years of life, in his last days it robbed him of many memories. I was one of them. But each year, when the circus comes to ...

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, right before your very eyes: clowns, animal acts, acrobats and a flying trapeze. After months of negotiations, major storms and jumping through legal hoops, ...

The tent circuses that travel through Connecticut today feel the effects, and pay the price, of the worst circus fire in U.S. history — the 1944 fire in Hartford that killed 168 spectators. The state ...

In 1937, D.R. Miller and his relatives hit the road with a six-person circus that included two trucks, six monkeys, four ponies and four dogs. They had 68 cents between them when they pulled into ...