In this year's focus issue, Circus & Carnival Quarterly (C&CQ)'s beat reporter, Chuckles Scooper, visited with the management and performers of the family owned Hargrove Family Circus now touring the Mid Atlantic region with stops in Lewes Deleware, Atsion New Jersey, Upper Marlboro Maryland and Mt. Pleasant DC. We will peek under the tent to see how a traditional family owned / family operated circus can compete in the modern entertainment landscape.
As an added bonus, any C&CQ reader who brings a copy of this issue to Hargrove's October 27 performance at the historical Newton Mannor will recieve 6% off admission of a second minor.
Midway opens at 6:00, Ringmaster takes the reins at 7:00 sharp.
I mention here for no reason the perfect safety record that the Hargroves frequently point to with a sense of pride. Despite being a low budget, discount circus, nobody has ever died mysteriously in the dozens of decades since Harold & Matilda began entertaining the ticket buying public. We're pretty sure there's no reason to worry that a knife throwing show, high wire act, or corn dog will go horribly wrong and end up creating a pile of corpses. Or that one of the performers, living under inhumane conditions, working for a pittance might snap and straight up murder somebody else over personal differences. It's almost not even worth mentioning.
Please check back frequently as our reporters from the field send back cables from the Family circus.*
* Not this Family Circus
The Hargrove Family Circus even survived a brush with Old Man Croom and his ghost plane while in Upper Marlboro without incident. Even the Goatman couldn't possibly rain on the happiest Circus on Earth. Where nothing could ever posibbly go wrong, ever! -Harold Hargrove
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