After 146 years in business, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will officially take down its giant tent this spring. In its announcement, the circus’s parent company Feld Entertainment ...
On November 12, 1836, Phineas Taylor “P. T.” Barnum arrived in Rocky Mount after leaving Aaron Turner’s Traveling Circus, for which he managed the sideshow acts and took tickets. Barnum convinced some ...