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Life can be tough. Between work, daily tasks, families, and other various activities, it can be somewhat overwhelming. Now imagine having to live a full

So it was with Barnes’ circus, with a lot of people pulling together to make things happen. This is a show that roars with passion and charm in equal measure.

May 3, 1922 BALL PLAYERS MAD, GROUNDS RENTED TO BARNES SHOW Much grumbling was heard about the city last night and today because the school board had rented the school’s athletic park to the...

Vossler: Big myths die hard Bill Vossler Myths die hard. I punctured one forty years ago, and got punctured back in the process. I thought I‘d let out all the air, but discovered recently that the myth remains alive and well yet today. Clifford Thompson weighed 12 pounds when he was born near Silva, North Dakota, Oct. 18, 1904, a became a normal-sized boy. The late Ted Torgerson of Rugby, North Dakota, said he and Clifford spent most of their free time together. “Clifford was no different than any other kid. Maybe a little bigger, but just one of us kids. We played kid gam...

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, circuses were all the rage in America. Here there were astounding acts that captured the imaginations of the masses, and this was a major, dominant form of entertainment back in the day. Back in the 1900s, the search for new and unusual circus sideshow attractions was never-ending, with various promoters constantly on the lookout for anything exotic, strange, or downright grotesque. The weirder, the better, and many of these were happened upon by chance in faraway lands, where there were often new and unusual people that could be exploited for the cr...