Beginning on this date, The Six Flying Banyards, a world renowned acrobat troupe, performed high above the crowd assembled on the main walk and steps of the carousel waiting platform at 3 and 10 p.m. daily in Rock Springs Park. See a photograph at http://rockspringspark.blogspot.com/2011/02/well-known-circus-acts-performed-at.html.
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Dr. James W. Smith Jr. (pictured above), a noted surgeon who recreated a forbidden childhood paradise by amassing one of the finest collections of antique penny arcade games in the country, including many from his childhood favorite, Rock Springs Park, died on this date in Greenwich, Connecticut. He was 79 and had for many years made his home in Greenwich, less than a mile down the road from the barn that housed his whirring, blinking, clinking Eden.
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