Today is the birthday of Charles Edward Ringling (1863-1926), a somewhat random and yet reasonably appropriate time to perform a much delayed unpacking of the complicated story of the Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus. I’ve wanted to do this for a while, mostly because I want to be clear. I have a disconcerting tendency […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:53AM on December 2, 2013