Throwback: These circus performers rose above their circumstances to leap to new heights. | Beautiful News

Take a five-minute look at the life of a circus performer, as it was back in 1956. While I don’t personally hold a lot of love for the circus, I am and always have been fascinated by the lives of its performers, and I love to see it pop up in fiction, whether romanticized, used as a stand-in for hard times (“run away and join the circus”), or when it’s presented as a setting where the scales are unbalanced, where oddballs are welcome and outcasts are protected, it’s always a rich backdrop for dr