Sarasota’s Got It All

By JAN TUCKWOOD – PALM BEACH POST :

Dolly Jacobs soars like a ballerina, three stories up without a net. For years, she starred in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus — flying high, dangling from rings, defying death with every somersault. At 50-something, she still performs. And when her toes touch ground, she’s happy to be home: Sarasota, where she was born and raised and where the spirit of the circus lives. It’s the spirit of Dolly’s father, Lou Jacobs — a clown so famous his face was on a postage stamp…    MORE