PET LIONS & WELL-DRESSED ELEPHANTS
Raised on opposite shores of Lake Ontario in the mid-19th century, two talented young adults begin their journey toward becoming key players in the birth and success of P.T. Barnum’s “Greatest Show on Earth.”
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PET LIONS & WELL-DRESSED ELEPHANTS
Charley was lucky. Although no one had ever said it out loud, he was accepted as one of the insiders. It hadn’t been because of his years with them or because of his fine work that got him in. It was because John-John trusted him…and everyone trusted John-John. The blue-eyed bird man had grown up on a chicken farm and was the kindest, gentlest fellow on the lot. He looked like he could bend iron with his bare hands and yet he got downright sissy when he started talking about his birds. He’d been working for the American Museum at Broadway and Ann Street taking care of Mr. Barnum’s exotics when Mr. Lent talked him into coming to work for him. Now he took care of all the exotic birds in the hall, cleaning pens and feeding them all by himself. It wasn’t unusual to see him sitting on a stool in a bird pen with a fancy chicken perched on his knee.
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She was a family legend, a nameless woman who had performed in the Barnum & Bailey Circus in London, England in the late 1800’s.
There was no bible, no record, no remnant of this circus star to remember her by. Family elders said she was an acrobat, a rider of white horses, and an American Indian who had run away from the reservation as a child to join the circus.
In reality, she was not an acrobat, a rider of white horses, or Indian. She was the second of the Georgia Wonder girls who came onto the entertainment scene in the early 1880’s.
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My Photography
Show-and-Tell was my favorite subject in school and that concept defines me to this day.
Photography provides a way for me to capture and share the beauty I see.
Writing is a way of sharing amazing stories I have uncovered in history worth remembering.
Life is a collection of precious moments worth sharing and celebrating.
Patriot Paws Service Dogs (Photography)
I have watched service dogs change the lives of American Veterans for the better for several years. While is does not always work, when it does work… it works miracles. I am grateful for the opportunity to do something positive, to preserve happy memories through my photography for such a deserving group of people.
