Sutton's Hungry Goat

09/03/2026

For about sixty years, a small city on the Mississinewa River was where America's circuses came home for the winter. 🎪

In 1892, circus owner Ben Wallace bought 220 acres of land near Peru, Indiana from Gabriel Godfroy, son of Miami war chief Francis Godfroy, and started building. What went up wasn't small: an elephant barn, a wagon shed, a carpenter shop, a foundry, enough to house and repair an entire traveling circus through the cold months. It became winter headquarters first for the Great Wallace Shows, then for the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus after 1907, one of the biggest circuses in the country.

Wallace sold the circus itself in 1913, but he held onto the winter quarters and kept renting it out to other circuses until 1921. The property eventually became home to the Circus Hall of Fame, and Peru carried the nickname Circus Capital of the World for generations after the tents came down for good.

Did you know Indiana used to be where the circus itself lived every winter?

09/03/2026

09/03/2026

Today’s lunch special for Thursday: chicken noodle noodles, mashed potatoes, vegetables

09/02/2026

Tonight’s dinner special. Served from 5-8 pm.

09/01/2026

Wednesday evening special:
Salisbury Steak, mashed potatoes, green beans, and
dinner roll. 5-8pm

09/01/2026

08/29/2026

Breakfast for is calling! Served until 1:30pm!

08/27/2026

My wife will tell you that my mind never stops running. I usually have about three or more threads running in my brain at any one time. (I’m not kidding). Probably a mix between Rain man and Forest Gump. She gets exhausted trying to keep up with multiple thought tracks at once. We haven’t done a lot of posting in a while because summer has been sooo busy with three farms, three jobs each, and restaurant development. I have many embarrassing and entertaining ideas to come. But warm weather is running short. So I must spend my time in toil, but make no mistake, I continue to study my thespian mentor Mark. Probably not gonna see me with a pink umbrella, but who knows where my mind goes? But Thursday and Friday this week Linda will be at the Goat. Come see her and maybe she will have a chance to tell you some stories. Like her battle with the possessive and over infatuated Sonny. Or the lady that bit her this week at job #1 causing another trip to the ER. Or my 2 140+ mile per hour chases this week. (We got them, no big deal) You can’t make our lives up. Patience is a virtue. I love my town. We are doing this for our community. Be part of the solution or be part of the problem.