Tears from the clowns: Circus performers bid farewell to their priest
Father Jerry Hogan was âlarger than life. Vibrant. Joyful. Creative. Very real.â
By Thomas Farragher Globe Columnist,Updated May 12, 2021, 11:40 a.m.
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John Kennedy Kane, who was a ringmaster for the Big Apple Circus and before that a clown, bid a final farewell to Rev. Jerry Hogan.Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
WOBURN â When the final prayers had been said and the body had been blessed, the man in the sequined red-tailed ringmasterâs costume stepped up at the graveside and summoned the deep, baritone voice familiar to the circus audiences he entertained across the decades.