October 17, 1990, Twin City News-Record
I'd have liked to have been in the audience for this talk, if only to see how safety with electricity was integrated into a circus type presentation. Plus, I like circuses. Judging from all the accoutrements, this guy must have made the "circuit," going from school to school and town to town throughout Wisconsin. (Go ahead, groan with me.)
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ReplyDeleteThe man in the picture is Don Atkins, he's my great grand uncle, I've been doing a lot of research on him, and I've recently found that the suit he is wearing in that image is actually still around! he also had a line of coloring books made from this image, his wife (who is 104 this month, by the way) still has a lot of them, in addition to a lot of his other circus stuff, its been really fun trying to parse together his performance history. (he also owned a clock shop and some other stuff)
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