Lecture-Colonial Williamsburg

Lecture-Colonial Williamsburg, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. Illustrated lecture this Friday, April 23, at Colonial Williamsburg 5:30 p.m. in the DeWitt Wallace Museum, Williamsburg, Virginia For almost a century, ornately carved band chariots, tableau wagons, and allegorical floats announced the arrival of circus day in cities and towns throughout America. Richard Flint, a past president of the Circus Historical Society and former staff member of the Smithsonian’s Division of Performing Arts, will highlight the evolution of the circus parade and the carvers, wagon shops, and musical instrument makers who created the telescoping tableaux and cacophonous calliopes featured in these imaginative marches that annually enlivened America’s downtowns. Programs and exhibitions at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum are supported by the DeWitt Wallace Endowment Fund.