PERU, Ind. (AP) --An old circus wagon built and housed in northern Indiana has been featured in an Illinois ceremony for a century-old train crash that killed 86 performers. The Kokomo Tribune reports ...

Former Sentinel reporter Gerald Shields shares his memories about an Orlando-bound train for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus that detailed in 1994, killing two people.

PITTSFIELD — Just checking in on Jack Trowill, the man who, for decades, would travel over hill and dale with his projector, his slides, his notes and his memories. He’d be at the beck and call of any ...

A couple years ago, radio host Chris Nolte from our Northwest Indiana Lakeshore Public Media NPR, asked me to be a guest on his lunchtime broadcast of his show “Regionally Speaking” on 89.1 FM to talk ...

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 ...

Artist Joan Stevens helps preserve Circus World Museum's historic wagon collection. As a teenager, Joan Stevens ran away with the carnival and fell in love with circus art. Today, she is helping ...

At Circus World in Baraboo, the sights and sounds evoke the golden age of the circus. Its presence is loud and colorful. In the late 1800s, traveling performers rode ornate wagons through towns to ...

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 ...