David Eulitt

essays: The Circus Life: The Circus Life

The crew setting up the big top with the Carson & Barnes Circus worked to unroll the tent fabric off of a truck at the Johnson County Fairgrounds in Gardner, Kan. The circus, in its 73rd year of traveling the nation, stopped in Gardner for an afternoon and an evening show.
The Circus Life, photo by David Eulitt / The Kansas City Star ©


The crew setting up the big top with the Carson & Barnes Circus worked to unroll the tent fabric off of a truck at the Johnson County Fairgrounds in Gardner, Kan. The circus, in its 73rd year of traveling the nation, stopped in Gardner for an afternoon and an evening show.