Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1901 — Early Vermont Barred Circuses. [ARTICLE]

Early Vermont Barred Circuses.

Not until twenty years ago were circuses allowed to exhibit in Vermont, but the circuses used to skirt three Bides of the state closely, and it was most gratifying to the proprietors to see the way in which men, women and children of the Green mountains used to troop across the border into New York, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, to enjoy the feasts forbidden to them at home.