Sideshow

My youngest boy was watching a show on TLC which reported on abnormally tall and abnormally short people. He was fascinated with it and was telling me about it excitedly after it ended. I mentioned General Tom Thumb, one of PT Barnum's star performers and we were off on an internet hunt. After consulting Wikipedia, I went over to this site which in addition to a lot of Tom Thumb items has quite a collection of ephemera dealing with various sideshow performers through the years. That in turn led over here to a site dedicated to the sideshow, past, present and future. Incidentally, Mr. Mundie's website features pictures of his own artwork as well as the sideshow ephemera.

So a sidetrack to a sideshow on a slow Sunday, if you are so inclined. Enjoy.