These stories could come only from circus ... the Ringling train, yell “thank you” and applaud. “Got a lump in my throat,” Hamilton says, “every time I saw them.” Behind Clown Alley ...

Tim Torkildson, who lives in Provo, Utah, came across my words after Googling the keyword “circus ... real clown car. The one I was stuffed, crammed, and pummeled into at Ringling Brothers ...

The grotesque and glittering world of Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus is his “Never-Never Land.” His fellow clowns are the other lost boys. And the only pirates they fear are ...

The Ringling Bros. traveling circus is performing ... My son was born into the circus, and many people ask me, 'Oh, next generation of clowns, performers?' And I'm like: 'Absolutely not!

I was quite taken with Mary Ann Lewis’ suggestion that the circus clowns laid off by the closure of Ringling Bros., Barnum and Bailey Circus could take the places of the clowns we already have ...