It took only one spark to destroy an entire circus. On Feb. 20, 1940, a fire destroyed the main building of the Cole Brothers & Robbins circus winter headquarters in Rochester in Fulton County. The ...

Tom Ewalt and Ena the elephant. Ewalt's circus was based in Geneva, Nebraska, during the mid-1940s and entertained small-town crowds in eight states. Editor's note: This piece originally was published ...

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For composer, musician and artist Donald Rubinstein, imagining the persona of a 1940s' pianist named Jeremy Bonafide, the hero of Rubinstein's latest CD, Circus Boy, was to come to grips with his own ...

When we stumbled across this image, we were flummoxed. Taken in the 1940s by legendary photographer Joseph Janney Steinmetz, it depicts a game of croquet being played on an indoor court, with a number ...