P. T. Barnum was 60 years old when he started his first traveling circus in 1871. He collaborated with W.C. Coup & Dan Castello to create “P. T. Barnum’s Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan, and Hippodrome,” which eventually became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. In addition to being a showman, Barnum served two terms in the Connecticut legislature and was mayor of Bridgeport. Read Who Cares? about the struggle for dignity at “a lively place where old people go to die.” Learn more about the book and its characters, aged 9-90, in NOVELS.
P. T. Barnum was an entertainment and political showman
Woodruff Home for the Aged, a lively place where old people go to die
