FOREST PARK, Ill. — The truth about the Showmen's Rest section of Woodlawn Cemetery is violent, heart-wrenching and touching — it needs no embellishing, it's interesting enough. But that didn't ...
Clowns Thom “Skootchee” Stevenson (left) of Milton, Del., and Jim “Poppo” Shores of Baltimore, Md., uncover the wreath during the dedication of the Walter L. Main Circus Train Wreck monument and park ...
The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus suffered one of the worst train wrecks in history in 1918, with more than 100 people injured and 86 killed. Wikimedia Commons The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus wasn’t the ...