Town leaders are scrambling to save what may have been Barnum's one-room schoolhouse. It's set to be demolished soon to make ...

The rarely produced title makes its first appearance on the REV's Playhouse stage and will star Broadway veteran Jim Stanek in the title role of P.T. Barnum, the showman turned politician turned ...

We recently watched "The Greatest Showman" movie (2017) starring Hugh Jackman as P.T. Barnum (1810-1891), an American icon famous for his circus "The Greatest Show on Earth." Now, the movie itself is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Phineas Taylor Barnum, an American politician, entrepreneur and showman was born in Connecticut in 1810. He is probably best ...

Bethel officials honored the life and legacy of one of its most famous residents Wednesday. A rededication ceremony was held for the P.T. Barnum mural located in the general purpose room inside Town ...

Most Americans know the name P.T. Barnum because of the magnificent, eponymous circus that he and James A. Bailey co-launched in 1880, when Barnum was 70. But there was more to this staggeringly ...

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BARNUM: AN AMERICAN LIFE by Robert Wilson. Simon & Schuster, 352 pp., $28. P.T. Barnum was one of America’s first major celebrities, but history hasn’t been exactly kind to him. If you ask someone ...

Growing up in west Denver, Jamie Torres heard the stories about how the Barnum neighborhood got its name. Everyone knew it had something to do with celebrated circus entrepreneur Phineas Taylor Barnum ...

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Ladies and gentlemen. Children of all ages! Step right up. Prepare to be amazed. Today's Watchdog is about the circus. Actually, it's about the greatest showman who ever lived, P.T. Barnum, who in his ...