Web+Sites

=Web Sites=


 * Links from the book:**

[] In the "Fun Zone" on the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey website, you clan play games where you shoot clowns out of a cannon, create your own circus, "Barnumize" your email, take quizzes to test your circus knowledge, find educational activities, read about the Ringling Bros. Clown College, send your friends a virtual pie in the face, and more.

[] Wander through a virtual re-creation of Barnum's American Museum and try to solve the mystery of what (or who) started the fire that destroyed it.

[] Read a digitized version of P.T. Barnum's autobiography.

[] Listen to a 20-second audio clip of Barnum himself addressing future generations, recorded by Thomas Edison in 1883 on his newly invented phonograph.


 * More to learn on the Web:**

[] Find out more about Jumbo the elephant's second life as the Tufts University mascot.

[] View the Tufts Digital Library's collection of Barnum's papers, including photographs of many of the circus's performers.

[] Visit the newly re-opened Barnum Museum in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

[] Plan your pilgrimage to Seaside Park in Barnum's home of Bridgeport, and see the giant bronze statue of the showman as well as his and Tom Thumb's graves.