“Ladies and Gentlemen, children of all ages, Welcome to the Greatest Show on Earth!”

The circus has come to town and J&O is celebrating with Ringling Bros Barnum and Bailey inspired fabrics and prints in honor of all the magic and magnificence the Big Top has brought to children young and old in its over 135 years of existence.

Though the official union between the Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey circuses didnt occur until 1919, the entertaining of town folks by men dressed up as clowns, ladies performing eye popping acrobatic feats, wondering freaks of nature, and trainers commanding dangerous animals from exotic places, has been going on since as far back as 1871 when Dan Castello and William Cameron Coup of Delavan, Wisconsin had their group entitled ” P.T. Barnums Great Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan and Hippodrome”.