tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339009608152299571.post5987311416125278435..comments2024-02-20T05:13:40.565-05:00Comments on The Maiden's Court: The Hartford Circus Fire – “The Day the Clowns Cried”Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16609161113240681299noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339009608152299571.post-46238196807638217312017-04-12T11:18:16.921-04:002017-04-12T11:18:16.921-04:00Thanks for your comments. My reference to "T...Thanks for your comments. My reference to "The Day the Clowns Cried" wasn't in reference to any film actually (I quite frankly wasn't even aware that there was a film by that same name, and having now looked that up I agree that it wouldn't be about the Circus Fire. It looks like the unreleased film was called The Day the Clown Cried, vs Clowns cried.) I had come across Emmett Kelly while perusing The Circus Fire 1944 website and looked him up on Wikipedia to see more about him and then linked over to the page for the fire itself, and I believe that is where my first exposure to it being called The Day the Clowns Cried came from. It is quite the iconic image. That's really cool that you wrote a poem about the event - I'm not a big poetry reader myself.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16609161113240681299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339009608152299571.post-82387431289784999752017-04-12T10:27:17.325-04:002017-04-12T10:27:17.325-04:00Heather, the image you're using of Emmet Kelly...Heather, the image you're using of Emmet Kelly carrying water isn't from the movie "The Day the Clowns Cried", which movie was not about the incident pictured, of course, and was never released. The photo is now in the public domain because it was published in a newspaper report at the time of the fire, in '44. It's also used as the "cover" photo in my collection of selected poems I've titled "The Great Hartford Circus Fire", which I posted on my website some time before you used the same photo and the same title for your blog. You've done your research well. I guess we must have a cosmic connection. ;)kparcellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09421693414902437010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339009608152299571.post-68138621894089973762009-10-29T21:37:27.217-04:002009-10-29T21:37:27.217-04:00What a tradegy! I did not know about this before....What a tradegy! I did not know about this before. Thanks Heather.Jenny Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04077659644092707107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339009608152299571.post-76674762262734101812009-10-22T09:15:43.840-04:002009-10-22T09:15:43.840-04:00This post was a great idea - thanks. I read Water...This post was a great idea - thanks. I read Water for Elephants a while back, but I do remember the disaster scene ... imagining myself in that situation is simply horrible. It is even worse when you realize that things like this happened to real people. Tragic.Heather J. @ TLC Book Tourshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10474181812740579350noreply@blogger.com