Who Is Barnum to YOU?!  Poet, Artist, Inspiration, Community Treasure: Shanna T. Melton If you’re a follower of the Barnum Museum YouTube program, Who Is Barnum to YOU?!  Welcome back! 

This week’s blog brings us up to date on several stories from recent weeks, such as the novelties Barnum had shipped from Europe to feature at his American Museum for the holiday season

Greetings, Everyone! Although it hasn’t been long since we crossed the threshold of the Winter season, in another week or so we’ll start to notice that daylight is staying with us a little longer. 

Joe Barney!  Performer Extraordinaire!  Who Is Barnum To YOU?!! Joe Barney, owner of Center Ring Productions, is an award-winning comedy magician, clown, and Santa Claus, who has spread joy and smiles to countless millions of children-of-all-ages for over 50 years!

Slipped in among P. T. Barnum’s business and personal letters in his 1845-1846 copybook are some of his lengthy epistles to the Editors of the New York Atlas, for whom Barnum was acting as a foreign correspondent.

Who is Barnum to YOU? Today we are welcoming longtime Barnum Museum friend and champion, Bruce Hawley! 

Once in a while I come across remarks in the letters in P. T. Barnum’s copybook that are quite disconcerting to read, sometimes heart-sinking. 

As the Christmas holiday is now upon us, it feels most fitting to highlight P. T. Barnum’s letters home to his wife, sister, and daughter. 

Barnum Museum vs The Greatest Showman!  Fiction vs Fact! The REAL Story Behind the REEL Story!