Days gone by.

Pretty exciting morning and I thought you might be interested in learning a bit more about Mr. Ryan since I first met him when we came on theRingling Show almost 30 years ago. He was the fair haired boy in those days having handled the publicity for Gunther's arrival, the 100th Anniversary Edition and Clown College. In it's simplest forms, if you look back to the programs of those days, Jack did the bios under each artist's picure as well as descriptive matters of the show. The most difficult job, of course, was expounding the greatness of the less colorful staff members, fully aware that they would be even greater 12 months hence. I renewed conact with Jack, now in semi retirement, last year when he stumbled across the Blog Site and mentioned that out of the blue, Kenneth Feld had contacted him about doing the story line for the new Gold Unit (Home Town Show) and touched lightly on that experience and his surprise when he reported for work in Florence to find that Nicole Feld was now at the helm. I, like most of my friends, don't understand what there is to write, the circus traditionally is an art form that is self explanitory and having not seen the finished result I have no comment but what we had this morning was a man who owes no explanation to anyone and had done a job that can be descibed as difficult at best as opposed to people who have found a means of venting frusation over the sorry state of affairs in the circus industry in general. But when all is said and done and we have all gone to that land "from whence no traveller returns" still alive will be Mr. Ryan's 1969 catch phrase "May all your days be circus days!".