A cookie is a great dessert. Two cookies: better. But a handful of sweet little cookies that look like they just walked out of the zoo are the very best treat ever, especially for little ones. A small ...

Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski Jared Daughenbaugh gets help from his son, Brodie, 3, laying the wreath at the 130 year anniversary of the Walter L. Main circus train wreck in Vail on Wednesday ...

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 ...

The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus suffered one of the worst train wrecks in history in 1918, with more than 100 people injured and 86 killed. Wikimedia Commons The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus wasn’t the ...

GARY — History buffs listened to speeches amid the train horns Friday morning as they commemorated the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus train wreck that claimed 86 lives. “This is where history, the love of ...

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 ...

In the early morning hours of June 22, 1918, the second of two Hagenback-Wallace Circus trains was headed to Hammond from Michigan City when was rear-ended, as it was stopped to check a hot box on a ...

Circus performance has had a renewed appreciation across the country in recent years. The modern circus takes influences from the arts, combining traditional circus skill with aerial work and ...

Noah Dach says he can’t wait to watch audiences pick their jaws up off the floor. The 24-year-old is a co-founder of Atlas Circus Company, which is returning to Muhlenberg Summer Music Theatre to ...

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 ...