Jul. 24—PERU — A year ago, downtown Peru looked perfectly normal after the Peru Circus City Festival was forced to cancel due to the pandemic. But on Saturday, animal wagons, jugglers, clowns and ...

MILWAUKEE - This year's Great Circus Parade was bittersweet for Carolyn Tyler, whose earliest childhood memory is of watching the clowns and restored antique circus wagons wind through downtown ...

Imagine the streets of Milwaukee filled with gold-leafed wagons, enthusiastic clowns and performers, wild animals, barkers and thousands of onlookers. You may say ‘that sounds like a circus,’ and you ...

For the first time ever, Circus Vazquez, America's largest family-owned big top circus will be featured performers as part of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday, November 28. In their ...

In 1982, Mayor Henry Maier unveiled plans for a City of Festivals Parade, with a goal of making Milwaukee the Midwest's "parade city." The first parade, designed to replace the defunct Great Circus ...

The Great Circus Parade is back. Well, on television, anyway. Milwaukee PBS will premiere the documentary "Remembering the Great Circus Parade" at 7 p.m. Feb. 29 on WMVS-TV (Channel 10). Launched in ...

BARABOO, Wis. -- Circus World's elephants will be making their last-ever appearance during Baraboo's Big Top Parade this summer, and this time, they'll serve as the parade's grand marshals. This ...

Fifty brightly-colored circus wagons again will roll through Milwaukee's streets to the delight of the crowds after local parade promoters and Circus World Museum announced Thursday the 30th Great ...

BARABOO, Wis. -- After more than a decade helping to organize the Big Top Parade as executive director of Circus World, Scott O’Donnell will lead this year’s event as grand marshal. Last fall ...

My father, James Neumann, is wondering if you might be able to answer this question that has puzzled him for years. His great-grandfather Casper Ringelstein had a house on Roosevelt Avenue, south of ...

“Howda do! Guess who?” read the large banner depicting the pyramids and sphinx draped over the side of a full-grown elephant walking down Palm Canyon Drive in Palm Springs in 1937. Atop the pachyderm ...

What Irene McElhatton remembers most is high heat and tall buildings. It was Independence Day weekend 1963, and somehow this waitress found herself appearing in a new event, a circus parade in ...