The kids loved them

Summers in Palouse when I was a kid meant carnivals and the circus.

They held the carnivals just off Main Street and next to the downtown gym.

My brother Bob got kicked out of the carnival one summer.

They had a monkey on a chain, and it was a popular attraction.

Well Bob, who was always pushing the envelope, pushed a little too much. He was teasing the monkey, and the animal would make it out to...