Whatever Happened to the Newsies?
Mush's Story
By Hope Denton
On my search for newsies I have found four so far. Kid Blink is now a Vaudeville performer. Racetrack Higgens is the owner of championship racehorses. Spot Conlon is a "business man" with questionable connections. From there it was nearly impossible to find any of the other newsies. I had just about given up hope of ever finding another one when I happened upon an advertisement for the Ringling Brother's Circus. A picture of one of the performers was on the advertisement and it reminded me of one of the newsies.
I found Mush Myers in the Ringling Brothers Circus. He is the star acrobat of the show and is billed as the Great Mushini. Mush has become one of the most famous acrobats in the country, known for his abilities both on the trapeze and on the ground.
I was able to meet with Mush in his trailer. The room was filled with shoes all with matching laces. When I asked Mush about them he told me that as a newsies he frequently had laces snap on him and he would have to replace them with whatever string he had handy. Mush joined the circus at age eighteen, two years after the strike and has been with them ever since. Mush married a young woman he met on his travels with the circus. They have two sons and three daughters all of whom are learning their father's acrobatic tricks.
Mush was able to put me on the trail of another newsie. So I may have another story for you soon.
A/N: WOW that was the longest gap between chapters ever! I had the worst case of writer's block at least as far as this story went, then I had a breakthrough! So anyway I don't know when my next installment will be…but it'll be sooner than this one was…I hope.
Mush's Story
By Hope Denton
On my search for newsies I have found four so far. Kid Blink is now a Vaudeville performer. Racetrack Higgens is the owner of championship racehorses. Spot Conlon is a "business man" with questionable connections. From there it was nearly impossible to find any of the other newsies. I had just about given up hope of ever finding another one when I happened upon an advertisement for the Ringling Brother's Circus. A picture of one of the performers was on the advertisement and it reminded me of one of the newsies.
I found Mush Myers in the Ringling Brothers Circus. He is the star acrobat of the show and is billed as the Great Mushini. Mush has become one of the most famous acrobats in the country, known for his abilities both on the trapeze and on the ground.
I was able to meet with Mush in his trailer. The room was filled with shoes all with matching laces. When I asked Mush about them he told me that as a newsies he frequently had laces snap on him and he would have to replace them with whatever string he had handy. Mush joined the circus at age eighteen, two years after the strike and has been with them ever since. Mush married a young woman he met on his travels with the circus. They have two sons and three daughters all of whom are learning their father's acrobatic tricks.
Mush was able to put me on the trail of another newsie. So I may have another story for you soon.
A/N: WOW that was the longest gap between chapters ever! I had the worst case of writer's block at least as far as this story went, then I had a breakthrough! So anyway I don't know when my next installment will be…but it'll be sooner than this one was…I hope.