Katie Bakken traveled with Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey as a teacher and assistant performance director, then she worked for Cirque du Soleil where she met her future husband. https://wydaily.com/local-news/2018/02/17/hippos-clowns-and-highwire-acts-one-womans-journey-from-the-circus-to-virginias-colonial-capital/
The former winter quarters of wild animal trainer Terrell Jacobs is for sale. The property, declared an Indiana historic site, houses circus artifacts and structures related to Indiana based shows. Historians are concerned that new owners will destroy the buildings that remain. http://www.kokomotribune.com/news/a-circus-for-sale-historic-property-formerly-owned-by-wild/article_2b460868-0c4b-11e8-bc97-1bd5de8547cd.html
The new issue of Spectacle is now up and running at www.spectaclemagazine.com It contains all things Monte Carlo. I review nearly eleven hours of competition, news picked up in conversations and present huge photo galleries. Enjoy and please tell interested friends about the new issue. Thanks. Ernest Albrecht