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Green recalls circus history and Jamaica camping dream
The piece recalls the circus heyday from 1871 to 1920 and notes Nebraska's Campbell Bros. as a winter HQ. It follows Bill Green, a lifelong circus fan, printer and publisher of Call of the Calliope, who later moved to Beatrice and found a passion for Caribbean camping at Strawberry Fields in Jamaica. A reader trip to Jamaica is planned for March 1978 with special rates for subscribers.
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Green
America
Ringling Bros
New York
Tim McCoy
Connecticut
Nebraska
Campbell Bros. Circus
Fairbury
Nebr
Jack of All
Beatrice
Beatrice Police Dept
Ruth
Caribbean
St. John’s
U.S. Virgin Islands
Strawberry Fields
Jamaica
Col
Bill Woodcock
Clyde Beatty
Eddie Kuhn
Terrell Jacobs
Albert White
Jack la Pearle
Buzzie Potts
Strawberry