A memorial service for the five people killed in the Walter L. Main Circus Train Wreck of 1893 will be held next week. The service marking the 130th anniversary of the derailment will be held at 10 ...

Editor's note: This the first in a three-part series on the history of the circus in North Dakota. For 140 years, the circus has provided entertainment for residents of North Dakota. During the early ...

Clowns Thom “Skootchee” Stevenson (left) of Milton, Del., and Jim “Poppo” Shores of Baltimore, Md., uncover the wreath during the dedication of the Walter L. Main Circus Train Wreck monument and park ...

The Venice Area Historical Society was recently honored by the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation with a Florida Preservation Award for the Circus Train Car Museum and for its "significant ...

Peru Circus Center Arena, a big top–shaped building in the center of town, is just a block from the train tracks that bisect ...

Sad-faced clown Emmett Kelly spoke those words in 1956, upon hearing that “The Greatest Show on Earth” was folding its mammoth tent for the last time. The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus ...