In the thick of summer 2001,
The Travelling Wonder Show
weaves through America's heartland,
the big red truck guided by the smallest of local fairs and festivals.
The dazzling magician Christopher Wonder,
and the amazing fire dancer Clairelise,
along with the two enchanted roosters,
draw crowds to their old-time show and reactions from the community
with whom they momentarily settle.
The Travelling Wonder Show draws their audience
out from the omnipresent glow of television and supermarkets,
to their countryside tent offering a lesson in the magical and fantastic."'All Wonder' said Samuel Johnson, 'is the effect of novelty on ignorance.' Yet we are so created that without something to wonder at we should find life scarcely worth living."- Harry Houdini
