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FEATURED SHOWS R&S Woodcarving Appearing all week at Columbus County Fair Rick Cox is a woodcarver who has traveled around the country for the past 8 years studying and working with master carvers from all over the United States. He lives in western Pennsylvania where he teaches woodcarving classes and and has started his own business with his wife, Sue, R&S Woodcarving. He has carved deep relief figures and animals, portraits, caricatures, shallow relief, architectural, and chip carving He has carved several life-size statues including a Mohawk Indian displayed at Mohawk High School
The Flying Pages	Husband and wife team, Willy and Jill Pages have been performing their flying trapeze act together since 1992, after enjoying successful careers as aerialists with various other troupes. Willy Pages, third generation of the Cuban circus family, spent the majority of his career performing with his brothers, Jorge and Felix as the Flying Pages. These talented aerialists won gold medals for
their trapeze act and the silver cup for the “Best Act” at the London Circus World Championships.When his brothers retired from performing in 1991, Willy and Jill continued the family tradition of the Flying Pages. Jill began her professional aerialist career at the age of 16 and won “Best Female Trapeze Artist” at age 19 in the Monte Carlo Circus Festival in Monaco. Together Willy and Jill have performed in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Circus Circus in Reno, Nev., and the Big Apple Circus. An invitational trip to Monaco in 2002 brought the coveted “Bronze Clown” and the “Cup of Nice.” Most recently, the couple has traveled with The Shrine and Royal Hanneford Circus, the Varieties for Cirque Du Soleil, Germany Circus Krone, Japan Taiwan and Circus Sarasota. Both their son Anthony and daughter Mercedes perform in the act with Anthony now throwing the triple somersault! Rounding out the troupe are Eric Craft and Kerri Gillespie who both trained with the Amateur Circus in Peru.

Tales of the Old West ~with~ Chuckwagon Mac	Mac has been involved in show business most of his life. His interests and activities include many years as a rodeo clown, circus clown and circus advanceman. An avid interest in the Old West and the Cowboy Way of Life has resulted in Mac's collection of old Cowboy gear and tools of the trade. Naturally, along with the collectibles, come the storytelling and historic trivia to make the Old West come alive.
His easy style and rapport with his audiences of all ages make Chuckwagon Mac the finishing touch to his Tales of the Old West Display.
The Chuckwagon display features: Hands-on visual display of the cowboy's gear - cookware, barbed wire fencing, branding irons, harness and tack - similar to gear used on cattle drives. Storytelling, historic trivia and lectures on how the cowboys survived "on the trail." Chuckwagon Mac relates the origin and purpose of the real cowboy's personal gear and work equipment. Chuckwagon Mac compares the varied lifestyles and work habits of the Old West cowboy and the Old time Florida cowhunter or "Cracker Cowboy." Explaining the practice of branding cattle: how and why it was an intregal part of the cattle industry in the mid-1800s and is still used today. Learn about the cowboy's vocabulary and the origin and meaning of all the colorful terms that were used in the cattle camps.