Don Oswalt clearly remembers the day he first discovered the circus. He was 10 years old and his younger sister ran into the living room yelling, “Mommy, come look.” Following his mother and sister, ...

Think model trains, but instead of railroads, this convention features tiny big tops, model circus wagons and yes, some model train cars, too. “It’s a three-dimensional preservation of circus history, ...

Children love the circus, so what better toy than a model circus parade. In the late 19th century, the tradition of circus parades began. Toy replicas of circus wagons, animals and performers were ...

In America at the turn of the 20th century, circuses traveled by train. They stopped in small towns, unloaded the cars, and set up tents. Inside, humans and animals were dispatched to delight and ...

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 ...

PITTSFIELD — Just checking in on Jack Trowill, the man who, for decades, would travel over hill and dale with his projector, his slides, his notes and his memories. He’d be at the beck and call of any ...

The Illiana Garden Railway Society is bringing a bit of the big top to Valparaiso. Circus Train Day takes place June 6 at 295 N. Indiana 2. Although a smaller version of an American tradition, ...