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, ...

A miniature model will help Circus World Museum visitors appreciate the grand scale of the old Ringling Bros. circus train. Model train builder and circus fan Joe Kaspar has donated to Circus World a ...

Howard Tibbals' meticulously researched miniature circus goes on permanent display this week in the Ringling Museum's new Tibbals Learning Center. Like many American kids in the 1940s, Howard Tibbals ...

The colors jump out and catch the driver’s eye first. Only after the colors — bright red, white, blue and orange — catch one’s attention do the objects connect with the colors. The circus wagons and ...

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 ...

Every nook and cranny in the home of Daniel and Wilma Bonner of Wilson is filled with brightly costumed clowns, marching elephants and circus souvenirs. On the walls are posters and photographs of ...

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 ...

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 ...