The Circus Comes to Town

Have always wanted to watch the Big Top go up. This year I contacted Cole Brothers before their Willimantic arrival. I was told to be on Jillson Square June 24th at 7:30 Monday morning. Of course I was late and the Big Top was nearly up. I did catch many photos of the circus staff finishing up.

Enjoy

Take a look at the photos, when finished come back and click on the movie. It's a lot better then the photos and many of the scenes were filmed in Willimantic

Big Top almost up

Pounding Steaks

Man hanging from stanchion installing lights

Truck full of chairs

Bring in the bleachers

Bring in the bleachers

Dressing rooms

Biggest canon in the world

Lions napping

Putting together motorcycle show

Circus coming togeather

Elephant stools but no elephants

Pony's and baby carriages

Setting up the dinning tent

Circus fire truck

Breakfast almost ready

Almost show time

Concessions facility

Finishing up  the main entrance

Big top up, bleachers being built

Big top nearly ready

Circus business is good. Two luxuary buses each hauling
trailers carrying
 golf carts and two new Mercedes

Come on down

Saturday in the Park

Camping out  at Lauter Park

Yesterday, June 20th an event for the Willimantic No Freeze Hostility Center was held at
Willimantic's Lauter Park. A combination sleep over/fund raiser, campers enjoyed swimming, fishing. the skate board and the splash park. There was singing, story telling, marsh mellow roasting and a pancake and fresh fruit breakfast on Sunday mourning.

 Pictures of the park are amazing, (Thank you Annie Clark for sharing) not having visited, in years, I am pleasantly surprised how Lauter Park has matured over time. With the splash park and the newer skate park, Lauter Park has truly become a destination in Eastern Connecticut.

St Mary's Church Fire. May 16, 2013

See Saint Mary's before fire

   
                                                          May 16, 2013
The sound of breaking glass broadcast through the tower truck's communication system
                                        The buzz of the saws venting the church

                                           Sometimes you have to hurt to help

                                                 Views of the St Mary's Fire

St Mary's before the fire from Gerry Dougherty's Connecticut
Gerry Dougherty's Windham

Latino Migration Exhibit at the Windham Textile Museum

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Mill of the Month - April 27, 2013

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