Clown Town Facts
Jesse "The Machine" Green carves a sculpture using his chainsaw. (View larger version)
- The Big Apple Circus tent is made in Italy and is 63 feet tall.
- The Big Apple Circus tent has a special 'hat' that can be raised to allow heat to escape during hot days.
- The masts that hold up the Big Apple circus tent each weigh up to 2,600 pounds!
- It takes 35 people 8 hours to set the tent up, and this doesn't include installing the essential features such as seating and the ring!
- The Big Apple circus co-founders got their start juggling on street corners in England.
- The Big Apple Circus has appeared in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade several times.
- Grandma was inducted into the Clown Hall of Fame.
- Grandma the Clown surfs in her spare time...
- The Big Apple Circus is one ring, like many European Circuses.
- Chainsaw carving competitions occur worldwide at events such as the World Lumberjack Competition in Wisconsin, USA and the International Forestry Exhibition in Staffordshire, England.
- In January 2007 a chainsaw sculpture project began in Biloxi, Mississippi, which transformed trees killed by Hurricane Katrina into works of art.
- The Big Apple Circus' first performance was in New York City in 1977.
- Chainsaw sculpture carving has become a competitive art, with many artists entering carving contests. According to estimates, there are around 8,000 chainsaw carvers in the USA.
- Chainsaws often have dangerous 'kickback' when a chain tooth catches on the wood without cutting it.
