SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — 81-year-old Sonja Barta is a former fourth-generation circus performer. She’s lived in Sheboygan all her life. “My dad started me at age four. We had mats in the basement, and he ...

This would have far-reaching repercussions for the most popular entertainment of the early 20th century — the circus. An excerpt from a 1924 Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus program demonstrates how the ...

Santa Cruz kids captivated by the Al G. Barnes Circus posters. (Courtesy the Scotts Valley Historical Society, tinted by Jay Topping.) Parade wagons coming into Santa Cruz by rail in the 1920s.

The Antioch Shrine Circus is almost here. It returns to Hobart Arena in Troy on Feb. 21-23. There is still time to get your ...