Jack Cook poses for photos May 25 at Circus World in his grandfather’s 1913 Model T Ford, the original “Funny Ford,” which three generations of Cooks used to perform comedy car acts from 1923 to 1979.

For the circus known as “The Greatest Show On Earth,” a legendary costume designer dressed clowns in drag, women as chandeliers and elephants like everything from trains to peacocks and Christmas ...

Saying Sarasota has a rich history with the circus is like saying Siesta Key has a lot of sand. More than 90 years ago, John Ringling decided to move the winter home of his circus to Sarasota, which ...

Felix Adler, king of the clowns at the greatest show on earth, is Peter Pan come to life again. He is the little boy who will never grow up. The grotesque and glittering world of Ringling Brothers and ...

If you can't decide what you want to be for Halloween, and time is running out, let me make an unpopular suggestion: be a clown. Sure, they're scary, they're creepy, they evoke childhood nightmares, ...