CHICAGO – Sylvia Hernandez-DiStasi didn't have to run away to join the circus. She was born into it. Her parents, themselves circus performers, reared their troupe of children under big tops.

Large Scale Model Railroaders from across the region are at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield for the Northeast Large Scale Train Show. The show features S, O and G scales and larger, ...

AUBURN - The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus train lives on, in miniature form, thanks to a Shrewsbury model railroad enthusiast. “You’re not going to find another train like this anywhere,” ...

PITTSFIELD — Just checking in on Jack Trowill, the man who, for decades, would travel over hill and dale with his projector, his slides, his notes and his memories. He’d be at the beck and call of any ...

For more than 100 years, the remains of 56 performers and roustabouts of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus lay at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Forest Park. Some were known only by nickname, such as Baldy and ...

In America at the turn of the 20th century, circuses traveled by train. They stopped in small towns, unloaded the cars, and set up tents. Inside, humans and animals were dispatched to delight and ...

When Earle Brotzman was a teen-ager, he could miss school one day during the year and know his parents would not give him heck. That was when the circus came to town. From the time he was a small ...

For more than 100 years, the remains of 56 performers and roustabouts of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus lay at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Forest Park. Some were known only by nickname, such as Baldy and ...