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Collectors who have memorabilia from Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey are finding that there is a hot market for the items now that the show is closing. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2017/04/17/ringling-bros-circus-memorabilia-auction/100565496/

April 15, 2017 is World Circus Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KhvupTmFZY

Circo Hermanos Vazquez is beginning its 20th season in the United States. https://www.texasobserver.org/high-wire-act/

Universoul Circus impresses a first time visitor in Brooklyn. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/40/14/24-universoul-circus-butcher-2017-04-07-bk.html

The PBS News Hour aired this tribute to Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/fame-magic-controversy-ringling-bros-circus-will-take-last-bow/

A village in Turkey is using circus skills to help Syrian refugees adjust to life outside the war zone. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-4396790/Circus-arts-help-Syrian-children-make-new-life.html

A photo and interview reminiscence on what was once “The Greatest Show on Earth” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/us/ringling-brothers-circus-set-to-go-dark-after-146-year-run.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share

From the Washington Post … On May 14, 1917, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus descended upon the nation’s capital on four trains stretching more than a mile. The Washington Post reported that a crowd of about 30,000 people gathered at the show grounds at 15th and H streets to watch the construction […]

Richard Whitmarsh, Jr. of East Bridgewater, Massachusetts died March 19, 2017, peacefully listening to his circus music in the Good Samaritan Hospital at the age of 93. Son of the late Mildred (Goodwin) and Richard Whitmarsh, Richard was raised and educated in East Bridgewater and had been proudly living there ever since. Shortly after high […]