Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beth Macy, the author of Truevine, discusses the story of George and Willie Muse At the turn of the 20th century, there was no ...

A hundred years ago, a small carnival sideshow added two new cast members. George and Willie Muse, brothers from Virginia, were variously billed as “Ecuadorian Savages,” emigrants from Madagascar, and ...

Circus sideshow displays of "freaks" were very popular in the United States up until the 20th century. In 1899, George and Willie Muse, the African-American children of sharecroppers, were lured from ...

Journalist Beth Macy talks about George and Willie Muse, black albino brothers who were born in the Jim Crow South and were forced to become... Kidnapped, Then Forced Into The Sideshow: The True Story ...

Beth Macy went to work as a reporter for The Roanoke (Va.) Times in 1989, and it wasn't long before everyone was pointing her to the best story in town, one that nobody had ever been able to tell. It ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

When journalist Beth Macy first moved to Roanoke, Va. almost 30 years ago, a colleague told her about the best story in town that no one had ever been able to get: Two young African Americans, the ...