Thursday, March 01, 2012

From Buckles #6

SAVE2155 by bucklesw1
SAVE2155, a photo by bucklesw1 on Flickr.

Posted by Buckles at 3/01/2012 05:33:00 AM

3 comments:

John Herriott said...

She was circus thru and thru. All the females in my family have kept that circus animal tradition alive. How wonderful that she and others like her in our circus life are so dedicated and enjoy what they do, and what a wonderful enlightenment for those animals to be so handled and cared for. These are the things that these animal rights groups fail to realize or understand. If they could be aware I am sure those women would be standing in a fifferent line. I see the Wilson girls and the Rosaire girls among others. I salute all of them. But Babe sure fit the mold and almost to the end of her life. I knew her well and enjoyed her so much. What an attractive lady and Lady she was. You can be so proud Buckles.

01 March, 2012 08:56
Wade G. Burck said...

John Milton,
Enough paper for the dam line already!!!! What about a great sire line? Doesn't that count for anything? If we were horses, instead of just living and breathing them, you would be revered for sireing a great line of fillies, granted. Me, I would be gelded after the third colt!!! But in rare cases a sire line is very, very important, so help me and my testicles out here, would you.....Geez :)

Glad your well, Col.

Wade Burck

01 March, 2012 13:59
Roger Smith said...

Buckles and The Colonel have depicted and described the pure circus life of Babe Woodcock, born from blood lines of solid tradition, for which another way of life could not be imagined. Another such woman who immediately comes to mind is Gee Gee Engesser. Those of us born as townies, who found ourselves summoned to circus, faced strident objections and no foreseeable opportunities. We set aside predictable opposition and arrowed our own routes to arrive on the lot. The many who recognized their singular calling, and forsook their confining beginnings, as did Clyde Beatty, Arky Scott, Mabel Stark, and Hubert Castle, among countless others, found the circus a home providing fulfillment their birthplace promised only to deny. We honor the great circus family names, as we understand those who came to circus responding to rare selection. As all of us became family in our life's work, we can stand reassured by the words of Gee Gee in accepting her honor at St. Armand's Circle: "God bless the American Circus."

01 March, 2012 21:14

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