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Wigderson Library & Pub (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
The circus museum in Baraboo was closed this week due to the flooding. The clowns were let loose in the world of politics as we begin this week’s search for the Idiot Politician of the Week. This week I promise an all-badger state connection, unfortunately. Despite the record rainfall and flooding disasters, some politicians still couldn’t wait to be idiots. This week we go right to the top. President...
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JSOnline (Free subscription) | 03/15/2008
If a picture is worth a thousand words, Arnie Gore's photos had a lot to say. One of them, in a most unexpected way,...
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CAFFEINATED POLITICS (Free subscription) | 03/14/2008
Your Blogger With The Famed Train In Madison in 2001 This is sad. While the Milwaukee parade is slated for this summer, the Great Circus Train will run no more. Every kid (regardless of age) should be able to experience the joy of the circus train rumbling along the tracks. The parade, in past years, was always preceded [...]
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Badger Blog Alliance (Free subscription) | 03/14/2008
The clowns are coming back to downtown Milwaukee. After a six-year hiatus, the Great Circus Parade is expected to return in July of 2009. Steve Freese, the executive director of the Circus World Museum Foundation, tells the Journal Sentinel it will be one of the largest parades they've ever put on. I hope they do the circus train, too. They used to load all the wagons onto flat cars ( big event) and...
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JSOnline (Free subscription) | 03/13/2008
There will be red rubber noses. The Great Circus Parade will return to downtown Milwaukee on July 12, 2009, with a...
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JSOnline (Free subscription) | 02/15/2008
Rainbow wagons, camels and clowns may once again rule the streets of Milwaukee, as organizers of The Great Circus Parade said Thursday that plans are proceeding to bring the parade back in 2009.
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FREEDOM EDEN (Free subscription) | 02/14/2008
When you were a child, did clowns scare you? Do they still creep you out? Mayor Tom Barrett has some bad news for you. From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel : More than four years after the animals, wagons and marching bands of the Great Circus Parade took their last noisy, multicolored trip through the streets of downtown Milwaukee, Mayor Tom Barrett is calling for the return of the summer spectacle....
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Jezebel (Free subscription) | 12/07/2007
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The Business Journal of Milwaukee (Free subscription) | 12/04/2007
Circus World Museum said Monday that it reported an increase in attendance for the first time in nine years.
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JSOnline (Free subscription) | 10/06/2007
Where better to go in the scary month of October than Bara-BOO?
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Three Way News (Free subscription) | 09/22/2007
We'll see the robot world, the water show (I hear Geechy Guy is there) Anywhere you want to go The Circus World Museum in Baraboo We'll play mini-golf at Jellystone (or Pirate's Cove, your choice) We'll finally see that house of foam (we can slide from the bedroom to the dining room!) And if the kids want to buy a t-shirt, tell them to wait until we get to the new Creationist Museum!
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Fox News (Free subscription) | 07/26/2007
The show must go on for the Circus World Museum in Baraboo, Wis., despite plummeting attendance which leaves the organization working for, well, peanuts.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/26/2007
BARABOO, Wis. -- Not long ago, the Circus World Museum seemed to be falling like a trapeze artist without a net.
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HoustonChronicle.com -- Houston & Texas News (Free subscription) | 07/22/2007
The circus is full of awe-inspiring performances, but the biggest, and one of the most impressive, is one that very few people get to see. Within 12 hours of its last performance tonight, the 60 cars of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus train will be loaded, joined together, hooked to two locomotives and on their way to their next stop.
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linkfilter.net - fresh links (Free subscription) | 07/20/2007
on Jul 19, 2007 06:53pm. (+100XP)Wisconsin was once known as the "Mother of Circuses," home or winter quarters to more than 100 traveling circuses. The most famous of these was the Ringling Bros. Circus, founded in Baraboo in 1884. The Circus World Museum preserves this heritage through an impressive collection of circus memorabilia: thousands of posters, photos, films, props (such as clown hammers),...
