Pio Nock

The clown that was in our reading comprehension selection yesterday was a real-life clown.
In fact, he hailed from a family that had a legacy of performing in circus acts.

Read more about him (It'll prompt you to PRINT. Don't. Just CANCEL.)

Here's a YouTube video of his appearance in John Wayne's film, Circus World (1964).

Of course, what's amazing is hundreds of years later, the Nock families live on in the circus world:

• Cirque Nock in Europe: http://www.nock.ch/fr/famille.php
• The Nerveless Nocks in Florida: http://www.nervelessnocks.com/modules/web/index.php/id/3/history/
• Check out the historical pictures of the Nock family