Although Ivy News Today

Maggie Rickerby covers students who benefited from the pairing of Emotional Support Animals (ESAs) at JMU. In the story, Rickerby profiles three animals and their student caretakers.

The legend of William Ivy Baldwin starts when he was just 12-years-old when he ran away with the circus. He learned how to be a tightrope walker as well as a balloonist while he was in the circus. Ivy Baldwin was brought to Denver by John Elitch to perform at Elitch Gardens. He fell in Colorado and decided to stay. Ivy was only 14-years-old when he first crossed Eldorado Canyon on a tightrope wearing cloth shoes with resin soles and a 10 pound 26-foot pole with 1 pound knobs on each side. Get o...