http://stewart-onan.com Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:07:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://stewart-onan.com/nonfiction/#comment-739 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:33:19 +0000 http://stewartonan.wordpress.com/?page_id=82#comment-739 Some time back, I stumbled on “The Circus Fire” and read it cover-to-cover…….great book! Today, I met a retired Ringling Bros. animal handler who’d worked with the last surviving elephant from that fire…….she was over 90 years old when he worked with her!

]]> http://stewart-onan.com/nonfiction/#comment-337 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:47:43 +0000 http://stewartonan.wordpress.com/?page_id=82#comment-337 I am in the midst of reading “The Circus Fire”, and felt strongly compelled to write and thank you for this book. I too remember reading that “Life” magazine from the early 90′s, and wanted to know more. Until your book that search had proved fruitless. The mystery of “Little Miss 1565″, as well as all the other stories, are so haunting. As a Connecticut native and a history buff, I am so glad you took up the mantle and penned this never should be forgotten tragedy, replete with heroic stories, and mind numbing sadness. My mom was in junior high school in New Haven in 1944, and remembers the horror of the fire via the radio and local paper. There was a constant barrage of focus that summer. So glad the Barnes and Noble here in North Haven had a copy of “The Circus Fire”! Best Wishes on all your up coming endeavors,
Carolyn Thalken

]]> http://stewart-onan.com/nonfiction/#comment-92 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:17:08 +0000 http://stewartonan.wordpress.com/?page_id=82#comment-92 I took a creative writing class with you in Ithaca– and still enjoy your work. Thank you.

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