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Circus Building, Shelburne Museum; Shelburne, VT; constructed in 1965. The Circus Parade, which runs over 500 feet through the circus building, was begun in 1925 by Roy Arnold of Hardwick, VT, and took thirty years to complete. Four other woodcarvers, Harry T. Prior, Charles W. Dech, Milo Smith and Charles Lockier, worked with Arnold on the parade, which features accurate reproductions of wagons used by circuses of the Golden Age of the American traveling circus (ca. 1870-1940).
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Circus Building, Shelburne Museum; Shelburne, VT; constructed in 1965. The Circus Parade, which runs over 500 feet through the circus building, was begun in 1925 by Roy Arnold of Hardwick, VT, and took thirty years to complete. Four other woodcarvers, Harry T. Prior, Charles W. Dech, Milo Smith and Charles Lockier, worked with Arnold on the parade, which features accurate reproductions of wagons used by circuses of the Golden Age of the American traveling circus (ca. 1870-1940).