Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus is Closing

Well, 10,200 miles is a little further than I can travel…

But seriously, that illustrates sort of my point- There’s a small zoo in York and one in Boston, but that’s it for pretty much all of Northern New England. One of the defining characteristics of the circus has always been that it would travel to wherever there were people.

I know that when I was growing up near Chicago, we used to go to Franklin Park Zoo pretty frequently. Once I moved to NH (age 7), I don’t think I ever got to another one. There was just no way anyone was driving me 3 hours for that.

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