P.T. Barnum built an empire on spectacle—but one of his most quoted lines reveals a surprisingly grounded philosophy about ...

Foiled by wires and tree limbs, organizers of the annual Great Street Parade gave up on helium balloons. Now they have a new ...

The Greatest Showman, now in theaters, tells the unbelievable true story of circus-founder P.T. Barnum (played by Hugh Jackman). Many events from the movie are based on U.S. history from the mid-19th ...

The parade was the culmination of the Barnum Festival and included floats, marching bands and performers.

Phineas Taylor Barnum never said there's a sucker born every minute -- but he did insist people got their money's worth in cons they gladly paid for. And pay they did: after Barnum opened his famed ...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (WTNH) — The 2026 Barnum Festival weekend returns to Bridgeport from June 26 to 28, featuring fireworks, ...

SARASOTA, Fla. — Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey will return in a little more than a year with a new variation of its traditional “Greatest Show on Earth.” Feld Entertainment announced Wednesday ...

IN the first quarter of the present century, there lived in Paris, at No. 24 Place Malesherbes, a lady who bore the impressive title of Madame la Baronne d’Alexandry d’Orengiani. Her handsome ...

There’s no getting your arms around P. T. Barnum, no safe space in the cultural imagination for this guy. With his jolly bulb of a nose and his limitless energy—that demonic, write-two-lectures-before ...

Complete Information About BARNUM in Central New York at The REV (Jul 9 – Jul 26, 2025). Step right up and enter the dazzling world of P.T. Barnum, the Greatest Showman on Earth!Combining the ...

Phineas Taylor Barnum! And his wife was Charity Barnum, and his sister, Minerva Barnum: all in a concatenation accordingly, as Tony Lumpkin and Sir Walter would have it. Barnum! The name itself is ...