Schlitz Brewing sponsored the first Great Circus Parade in 1963, which was the first all-horse-drawn circus parade in the U.S. since 1939. The Great Circus Parade was staged 30 times in Milwaukee, ...

On the morning of May 30, 1893, a circus train convoy chock full of lions, elephants, and camels fatefully rounded a bend of a rural Pennsylvania mountain. The conductor was going 40 miles an hour, ...

Although Venice may lose one landmark associated with its days as the winter headquarters of the Ringling Brothers and Barney & Bailey Circus, it stands to gain another. The Venice Area Historical ...

Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey is America’s longest-running circus company. It began performances in the early 1890s. More than a century later, the company maintains many of the traditions of ...

Prior to commencing the column at hand, we're trying something new, and beginning, rather than concluding the column with, "Have a nice week, and God bless America." There, now try leaving that one on ...

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, ...

ESSEX - The circus is coming! And it's coming by train. That's right. For the next two weekends, the Valley Railroad Circus Train & Big Top Show will be at the Essex Station, transforming it into an ...

CHESTERFIELD, Va. (AP) - A circus train crashed into a car at a railroad crossing in Virginia. Local news outlets report that the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus train struck the car late ...