The circus has returned to Boswell â the miniature circus of the late Sherman âBudâ Gindlesperger Jr.
Bud, who died in 1984 at the age of 57, spent a lifetime being in love with the excitement of Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus. So much so that he created a replica format in 1/8 scale on an 8-foot by 16-foot wooden display of the 1940s and 50s aura of circusland.
Now, that very circus that was stored by his younger sister, Deanna Tipton of Ohio, for years in her garage after his death has recently been donated to the Boswell Area Historical Society and it is set up at St. Andrewâs Lutheran Church along Main Street. Tipton, 84, thought it was time to bring it home.