Anderson's Max Truzzi spent much of his life performing in the circus with his most famous role as Jay Jay Happy Clown. He now performs for charities and collects donations for Meals on Wheels. Anderson resident spent a life under the big top
By Charmaine Smith-Miles
Anderson Independent Mail July 11, 2010
ANDERSON — Max Truzzi used to get into trouble when he’d try to climb the ropes behind the curtains on the stage. He didn’t know why, but he was a boy who liked to climb.
Heights weren’t a problem for him.
Trees were his favorite playgrounds. Then one day, when he was 8, his mother, Sonya Truzzi, took him to a neighbor’s house in Florida. There, children his age were climbing a rope suspended 12 feet to 15 feet in the air. He was amazed.
“I thought that looked like fun so I climbed up on the rope with them,” Truzzi said.
This was the beginning of a 41-year career with the circus — the Ringling Brothers Circus, the Hanaford Circus, the Clyde Beaty Circus and the Moscow Circus. Truzzi was a tightrope walker.
It was all work he loved.
“It was in my blood,” Truzzi said. “The families all had kids who did something — some kind of act.”
This was Truzzi’s place.read more at:http://www.independentmail.com/news/2010/jul/11/anderson-resident-spent-life-under-big-top/
ANDERSON — Max Truzzi used to get into trouble when he’d try to climb the ropes behind the curtains on the stage. He didn’t know why, but he was a boy who liked to climb.
Heights weren’t a problem for him.
Trees were his favorite playgrounds. Then one day, when he was 8, his mother, Sonya Truzzi, took him to a neighbor’s house in Florida. There, children his age were climbing a rope suspended 12 feet to 15 feet in the air. He was amazed.
“I thought that looked like fun so I climbed up on the rope with them,” Truzzi said.
This was the beginning of a 41-year career with the circus — the Ringling Brothers Circus, the Hanaford Circus, the Clyde Beaty Circus and the Moscow Circus. Truzzi was a tightrope walker.
It was all work he loved.
“It was in my blood,” Truzzi said. “The families all had kids who did something — some kind of act.”
This was Truzzi’s place.read more at:http://www.independentmail.com/news/2010/jul/11/anderson-resident-spent-life-under-big-top/
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