American OZ
Title | American OZ PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Sean Comerford |
Publisher | Comerford Publishing |
Total Pages | 315 |
Release | 2020-07-23 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN |
The real traveling carnival is in the pathos behind the scenes. American Oz is a rollicking, gritty, adventurous story of life in the secretive subculture of traveling carnivals. You’ll never see your state fair or neighborhood festival the same way again! Comerford writes a bold, inspiring true story of a year working shoulder-to-shoulder with the colorful characters and legends of carnivals. He shares stories of freaks, a carnival pimp, a tramp gold miner, and the last King of the Sideshows. An insult dunk tank clown is shot. Masked gunmen rob his carnival. And a young showman friend dies on the road. It's a new classic American road story as he hitchhikes to shows in California, New Jersey, New York, Chicago, Alaska, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Texas, Georgia, and Florida where he works in a freak show. He becomes the #1 hitchhiker in the USA and a top agent at the State Fair of Texas. He travels to the lawless foothills of Mexico to see the new face of the American carny. He exposes the truths about immigration, labor abuse, and living between two worlds. Comerford finds carnival people seeking meaning and love in their lives, and the answers always seem to be somewhere down the road.
Carnival in the Countryside
Title | Carnival in the Countryside PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Rasmussen |
Publisher | University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 2015-08-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1609383575 |
More than a century and a half after its founding, the Iowa State Fair is the state's central institution, event, and symbol. During its annual run each August, the fair attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors who make the pilgrimage to the fairground to see the iconic butter cow, to ride the Old Mill, to walk through the livestock barns, and to people-watch. At the same time that they enjoy fried candy bars and roller coasters, Iowans also compete to raise the best corn and zucchinis, to make the best jams and jellies, to rear the finest sheep and goats, the largest cattle and hogs, and the handsomest horses. This tension between entertainment and agriculture goes back all the way to the fair's founding in the mid-1800s, as historian Chris Rasmussen shows in this thought-provoking history. The fair's founders had lofty aims: they sought to improve agriculture and foster a distinctively democratic American civilization. But from the start these noble intentions jostled up against people's desire to have fun and make money, honestly or otherwise--not least because the fair had to pay for itself. In short, the Iowa State Fair has as much to tell us about human nature and American history as it does about growing corn.
American OZ
Title | American OZ PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Sean Comerford |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2020-09-19 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781952693052 |
The real traveling carnival is in the pathos behind the scenes. American Oz is a rollicking, gritty, adventurous story of life in the secretive subculture of traveling carnivals. You'll never see your state fair or neighborhood festival the same way again! Comerford writes a bold, inspiring true story of a year working shoulder-to-shoulder with the colorful characters and legends of carnivals. He shares stories of freaks, a carnival pimp, a tramp gold miner, and the last King of the Sideshows. An insult dunk tank clown is shot. Masked gunmen rob his carnival. And a young showman friend dies on the road. It's a new classic American road story as he hitchhikes to shows in California, New Jersey, New York, Chicago, Alaska, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Texas, Georgia, and Florida where he works in a freak show. He becomes the #1 hitchhiker in the USA and a top agent at the State Fair of Texas. He travels to the lawless foothills of Mexico to see the new face of the American carny. He exposes the truths about immigration, labor abuse, and living between two worlds. Comerford finds carnival people seeking meaning and love in their lives, and the answers always seem to be somewhere down the road.
American Fair
Title | American Fair PDF eBook |
Author | Pamela Littky |
Publisher | Kehrer Verlag |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Fairs |
ISBN | 9783868288209 |
The nostalgic glamor of the American fairs attracts visitors of all ages, every year in the USA.
Inside the Live Reptile Tent
Title | Inside the Live Reptile Tent PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | 154 |
Release | 2001-02 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 9780811828246 |
Among the most accomplished color photographers of our time, Jeff Brouws presents over 80 resplendent photographs capturing the dreamy magic of the carnival midway. Gravity-defying amusement rides, brightly colored booths, the beseeching barkersBrouws' tableaux are accompanied by dozens of historical images from photographers such as Ben Shahn, Marion Post Wolcott, and Arthur Rothstein, and vivid text by cultural historian Bruce Caron. Inside the Live Reptile Tent is a journey to the heart of every special weekend and holiday adventure.
The Oregon State Fair
Title | The Oregon State Fair PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Robert Heine |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | 128 |
Release | 2007-08-15 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 1439634394 |
Since the first Oregon State Fair was held on four acres along the Clackamas River in the Gladstone/Oregon City area in 1861, the fair has been the focal point of Oregon culture—a place to see and be seen and to compete against the best in the state. It has been a place of victory and a place of discovery for nearly 150 years. For many generations of Oregonians, the fair was a chance for families and friends to reunite and share the excitement of this grand, uniquely Oregon event. Today the fair’s popularity continues and, for 12 days each year, transforms the fairgrounds in Salem into the fifth largest city in the state.
John Sloan in Santa Fe
Title | John Sloan in Santa Fe PDF eBook |
Author | James Kraft |
Publisher | Smithsonian Books (DC) |
Total Pages | 76 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Art |
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