essay: Coming to Town

"Clean, affordable and kid safe entertainment.”

"Clean, affordable and kid safe entertainment.”

Crowds of people gather outside the ticket booth to buy admission for the first Dallas show of the Carson & Barnes Circus, on Tuesday afternoon, March 24. Carson & Barnes advertise their circus as “clean, affordable and kid safe entertainment.”

The Waiting is the Hardest Part "Clean, affordable and kid safe entertainment.”  "The tent is enormous." "My whole family is in the circus." "I don’t care what the doctors think."  The Official Carson & Barnes Circus Coloring Book Stretching Together Before the Show Often Working from Dawn to Dusk "I feel comfortable in the air." For the Elephants to Enter Doesn’t Know Where to Look Dismantling the Universe Every Night  Melvino Has Been in Several Circuses