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Thursday, June 6, 2013

A Circus Life film
from: expressmilwaukee.com
June 6, 2013

 
Normal life paused a century ago in many places when the circus came to town. The performers trouped down Main Street in a cavalcade of wagons heavily carved and gilded. By the 1950s those rolling sculptures were put to pasture, rotting in barns or turned into chicken coops. Wisconsin’s Chappie Fox, who made his life’s work out of rescuing those wagons and preserving them at Baraboo’s Circus World Museum, is the subject of A Circus Life. The documentary is also an informative look at an era when the traveling circus was part of the common cultural currency of America. (David Luhrssen)
The film shows on Tuesday, June 11 at 7 p.m. at the Oriental Landmark Theatre

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