Artist Joan Stevens helps preserve Circus World Museum's historic wagon collection. As a teenager, Joan Stevens ran away with the carnival and fell in love with circus art. Today, she is helping ...
Lately, I've been exploring a sort of lost art when it comes to travel trailers and campers, and the result of this art is the circus wagon. With this in mind, I've started looking for brands that ...
At Circus World in Baraboo, the sights and sounds evoke the golden age of the circus. Its presence is loud and colorful. In the late 1800s, traveling performers rode ornate wagons through towns to ...
A wagon that’s been on display at Baraboo’s Circus World Museum for three decades will soon be departing. The Ringling Bros. Bell Wagon will travel to Florida shortly after Labor Day to be with its ...
Sixty years ago, the Great Circus Parade filled the streets of downtown Milwaukee with colorful wagons, marching bands and clowns. The parade showcased Wisconsin’s history as the birthplace of many ...
The Tucson Wagon and History Museum added some colorful additions to their fleet last week. Crews transported several circus wagons to the museum, donated by Michele Macfarlane, the ...
The Circus World Museum is rolling out yet another piece of history in preparation for next week's Great Circus Parade and Festival. For the first time since 1955, the historic No. 81 Christy Bros.
BARABOO, Wis. -- Circus World is inviting guests to sip and stroll through history during its upcoming Wagons & Wine event. The 21-and-older event will take place from 2 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Gov. Jim Doyle stood in front of a 106-year-old circus wagon on Wednesday to tout the return of the Great Circus Parade to Milwaukee on July 12. Like a second wagon parked around ...
Children love the circus, so what better toy than a model circus parade. In the late 19th century, cages of animals were drawn by horses through the main part of town to announce that the circus had ...
Jul. 24—PERU — A year ago, downtown Peru looked perfectly normal after the Peru Circus City Festival was forced to cancel due to the pandemic. But on Saturday, animal wagons, jugglers, clowns and ...