Carillons and Circus Clowns

So this Thursday I went to Carillon Historical Park in Dayton with the grandparents. I had been there before when I was in 5th grade for a field trip. But all I remember is the wright brother's bike shop and some other historical buildings. I have lived in Dayton all my life and thought that "Carillon" was someone's name. Did anyone else know that this is not so and that a carillon is a musical instruments containing at least 23 cast bronze cup-shaped bells. The deeds carillon in Carillon park has 50 bells. It is played just like a pipe organ by a carillonneur. He plays it in a little room in the bell tower. They are really popular in Belgium and the Netherlands and France. Mrs. Deeds was visiting Europe and was enamored by the beauty of this musical instrument she wanted to bring it to Dayton. So the Deeds family had the Carillon built in Dayton in 1942. How did I not know this. Did anyone else know this or am I the only one. I always knew the bell tower was there but I thought that it just chimed like a clock tower...which it does but that is not all apparently.

Moving on the Antioch Shrine Circus is in town and my grandpa is a Shriner so I get special coupons and get to go in a special entrance for the "Nobles" It makes me feel like a kid again once a year. I have gone since I was just a wee thing. It's always a good time.