When P.T. Barnum held court before thousands of Berkshirites who gathered on May 19, 1877, to see "The Greatest Show on Earth," The Berkshire Eagle described the moment with "Thunders of applause ...

Phineas Taylor Barnum was both of those things, as well as a vital part of the state of Connecticut for most of his life. The myth will be separated from the man in a new one-person play, "Barnum ...

On November 12, 1836, Phineas Taylor “P. T.” Barnum arrived in Rocky Mount after leaving Aaron Turner’s Traveling Circus, for which he managed the sideshow acts and took tickets. Barnum convinced some ...

For 118 years, the museum honoring a man who brought us the P.T. Barnum and Bailey Circus has preserved P.T. Barnum’s private papers, a souvenir piece of Tom Thumb’s wedding cake from 1863 and ...

Auburn, N.Y. — P.T. Barnum, called in his lifetime The Prince of Humbug, is one of those larger than life figures who helped define American exceptionalism as largely aspirational and a little bit ...

BETHEL -- P. T. Barnum might have been proud to hear how town residents will celebrate his 200th birthday at the Hurgin Municipal Center on July 5. The town's most famous son was renowned for his ...

I did not walk into “The Greatest Showman” intending to dislike it. It’s very rare and rather exciting for a movie musical to feature well-known and successful actors, especially with an original ...