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The Bloomington-Normal Circus Legacy: The Golden Age of Aerialists
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The Bloomington-Normal Circus Legacy: The Golden Age of Aerialists
About this book
Starting in the 1870s, the barns, icehouses, gymnasiums and empty theaters of central Illinois provided the practice sites for aerial performers whose names still command reverence in the annals of American circus history. Meet Fred Miltimore and the Green Brothers, runaways from the Fourth Ward School who became the first Bloomington-born flyers. Watch Art Concello, a ten-year-old truant, become first a world-class flyer, then a famous trapeze impresario and finally Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus's most successful general manager. The entire art of the trapeze--instruction, training, performance and management--became a Bloomington-Normal industry during the tented shows' golden age, when finding a circus flying act without a connection to this area would have been virtually impossible.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. “Trapeze Flying School”
- 2. Bloomington’s First Leap: The Flying La Vans
- 3. Worldwide Sensation: The Flying Fishers
- 4. Empire Building: The Flying Wards
- 5. Spirit, Mind and Body: YMCA
- 6. America’s Oldest Collegiate Circus: Gamma Phi Circus
- 7. Is There Any Money in It?: Arthur Marshall Vasconcellos and Marie Antoinette Comeau
- 8. Stay for As Long As You Can for As Much As You Can: The Rise of Art Concello, Manager, Owner, Impresario
- 9. A Consortium of Curious Characters
- 10. The Last Chapter Is Not the End
- Notes
- About the Authors
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