The Boston Globe, April 27th, 1993
The Big Apple Circus matinee had just ended, and a happy crowd was pouring out of the red-white-and-blue tent onto Fan Pier and Northern Avenue. The pachyderms, Anna May, 47, and Peggy, 37, weighing four tons each, were perambulating outside the tent, unwinding perhaps. Inside the trailers where they live, the performers, also unwinding before the evening show, had just changed into clothes that would transform them from a source of magic to mere human. Max Schumann, 77, his daughter, Katja Schumann, 41, and her daughter, Katherine Rose Schumann Binder, 7, talked as they rested. Minutes before...
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