VENICE — Retired circus performers, owners of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and local officials turned out recently to celebrate the new Circus Train Car Museum with a ribbon-cutting ...
In honor of spooky season, the Ledger-Enquirer is exploring some of Columbus’ most unsettling true-life stories and some of them are scarier than fiction. These stories are (mostly) true and are as ...
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 ...
As part of the Orlando Sentinel’s 150th birthday this year, we’ve asked former staffers to write about memorable stories they covered during their time at the newspaper and give some behind-the-scenes ...
In the early morning hours of May 30, 1893, Engineer “Red” Cresswell attempted to bring Walter L. Main’s circus train—full of exotic animals, expert performers, employees, equipment and Main ...
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 ...