Friday, May 29, 2015

Lee Bros. Circus #2


1 comments:

Roger Smith said...

Eugene Howard "Arky" Scott. BUCKLES will know for sure, but I believe Lee Bros. was Arky's first circus. He had escaped--literally--from a Dickensian boys' home in Louisiana, and like many not wanting to be found, recognized the immediate and blessed anonymity of losing oneself by joining a circus. Such human repositories as Arky came from did not like losing residents, as they got so much money per month from the state for each kid. But Arky made good his escape and the circus provided him a home for life. When he left the road, he ended his years with elephants out here with us in Thousand Oaks.