My mother used to always joke about having gone to clown college as a way to embarrass me and trick me into believing I came from a long line of "entertainers." One time, she even purchased a clown nose to prove it. Moms! What are you going to do with them? Anyway, I thought I'd use this anecdote as an excuse to talk about clowns (sorry to Lauren and all my other readers who suffer from
coulrophobia!). I was originally going to do a post on the circuses of the early eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but its a lot of reading about the business side of things, aka boring.
