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"Starting in the 1870s, the barns, icehouses, gymnasiums and empty theaters of central Illinois provided the practice sitesfor aerial performers whose names still command reverence in the annals ofAmerican circus history. Meet Fred Miltimore and the Green Brothers, runawaysfrom the Fourth Ward School who became the first Bloomington-born flyers. WatchArt Concello, a ten-year-old truant, become first a world-class flyer, then afamous trapeze impresario...
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"The first-ever biography of Art Concello, one of the world's greatest trapeze artists and circus businessmen, this book goes beyond the showmanship displayed in the ring to reveal the inner workings of the circus that could both thrill a crowd and make incredible money"--
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