Quick, Run!!

So apparently yesterday in Maryland, some Ringling Bros. zebras escaped. This has happened before, most recently in Colorado Springs.

Those zebras...people have always been fascinated by them, but they are the animal most likely NOT to be able to be domesticated. They retain their wildness no matter how much training is administered, and even those born in captivity (which is also rare) keep their wildness. Their genes haven't changed in multiple millenniums.

Go, Zebras, go!!

Sherwood Forest

Circus Flora, my all-time favorite circus, has set its theme for this year's show. "Sherwood Forest" will feature the usual cast of performers, including The Ianna Spirit Riders, Giovanni Zoppe (Nino), the St. Louis Arches, and Cecil McKinnon. The Haute Ecole horse act and the Flying Cortez will also be featured, along with the Flying Wallendas.

It's going to be another great show. Yes, I'm biased, but I love Circus Flora and it means I get more chances to hang out and learn more about circus. And that's always a good thing.

The shows will run from June 5-22, 2008.

And Great Joy Was Heard Througout the Land...

Well, probably not really. But joy for me. B.E. Trumble, mud show blogger and sometime Patch, is going to be touring with and blogging from a mudshow again this year. I so missed following his adventures last year, when he wasn't traveling with a show. In 2006 he was with Carson and Barnes. He will spend this summer with Culpepper-Merriweather, the same circus my husband toured with in 2005.

I did an email interview with Trumble two years ago as part of the research for my book. So I have a semi-understanding of what he does. I'm not sure what his position on Culpepper-Merriweather will be, but I'm sure to find out. I'm really looking forward to reading his updates.

If you want to read along, the link to his blog is to the right.

Gibsonton

Great article on Gibsonton, aka, Gibtown or "Freak Town." I have never been but Klown and I intend to at some point. After this article, it just makes me want to visit even worse.

That and some of the circus performers I've been interviewing lately call Gibtown home. And I don't consider any of them "freaks," either.