The Canadian author’s debut novel, about a circus troupe travelling by steam train across war-torn Europe, is a vivid, uplifting page-turner In her impeccably researched debut, which opens in 1938, ...

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 ...

Each year, from 1927 until the early ’90s, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus train could be counted on to bring the greatest show on earth to towns all across America. The caravan was ...

Shorewood's ghost train isn't what you think it is -- nope, not a real train. The light and sound version of the train travels nightly through the Oak Leaf Trail Bridge over Capitol Drive, at 9:00 and ...

On this night 130 years ago, Aug. 22, 1889, Barnum and Bailey’s Circus made an unexpected stop in Potsdam. Three circus trains were traveling from Gouverneur, where the circus had performed that ...

In 1918, outside Hammond, Indiana, a train accident took the lives of 86 circus performers. Many of the dead were never identified. Playwright Jay Torrence memorialized the horrific event with his ...

Sylvia Hernandez-DiStasi didn’t have to run away to join the circus. She was born into it. Her parents, themselves circus performers, reared their troupe of children under big tops. Hernandez-DiStasi ...