The  Barn Keepers will hold their annual  meeting on Nov. 8, at 7 p.m. at the Evergreen  FS  Building, 402 N. Hershey, Bloomington. A short business meeting will be held to elect board members.

Maurine Brunsdale ,Special Collections and Rare Book librarian, ISU, will present a program on “Circus Barns.”  Bloomington was the trapeze capital of the world for nearly 100 years. Maurine’s illustrated talk will explore the magical history of the  Emerson Street barn which was built in the mid–1910’s  by brother-sister act: Jennie and Eddie Ward.

The program is free and open to the public.