“Run faster, Joey!
The Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus is unloading from the train. I hear it’s the ‘Greatest Show on Earth.’ Did you see that poster in Mc-Caskey’s candy store window of that acrobat balancing on one finger? That’s amazing!”
It was the late 1930s. Practically the entire town had closed for the most spectacular event of the year. A parade of wagons rolled into town, carrying a huge, menacing gorilla; unusual, exquisite camels, and snarling tigers that jumped through hoops of fire. The townspeople had never seen the likes, and many would never see anything as amazing again.
“Come on, Joey! Run!”
The first U.S. circus was established in Philadelphia in 1793, but it wasn’t until the introduction of the tent in 1825 that
