The Kelly Miller Circus Is Official Closed. Thanks For The Memories.
Other than this message, typo included, the website is now totally blank, all other pages having been apparently removed.
Remember the once-happy days of John Ringling North II? His stetson hat, an audience landmark? There he is, but no, as originally reported here, that is not him, as I guessed, at the head of the table with staff and fans, but Casey Cainan . Johnny II could not and would not continue without the animals, and who are we to blame him? Do I see Harry Kingston at the feast? Surely I see clown and tell-it-like-it-is blogger (then) Steve Copeland, third up on the right. Steve was so honest in sharing life on the show -- such as crowd sizes to cell-phonies mucking up the audience -- that we had to have our daily fix. Truly a new kind of on-the-spot circus reporting -- Nothing like it before or since. We were lucky! Now, it all feels like a wonderful little golden age. In my heart still, Ringling forever.
5 comments:
So sad!
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/459683-denmark-buys-four-circus-elephants-to-retire-them?amp
Thank you for your kind words. The cowboy hat is in fact worn by Casey Cainan not me.
JRN2
Ooops! Blame it on the hat! I will remove you from the scene. I'm in the mood to watch one of the performance videos you so generously sent me each year, fearlessly not knowing what I might write. Then again, you were also accepting of Steve's wonderfully free-wheeling blogging about life on Your Circus. Warm Regards to you, Shirley, and the hat.
Yet another circus reaps the rewards of cowering to the demands of the animal rights extremists. We've seen how well that worked out for Ringling Brothers. Thank God that Carson and Barnes still has some backbone to stand up to these bullies.
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