Tony Gangi is an adjunct writing and literature professor in the Boston area and is the author of Carny Sideshows: Weird Wonders of the Midway (Citadel Press, 2010), a chronicle of his week attending Sideshow School at Coney Island's famed Sideshows By the Seashore.

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Great American Street Organ combines the music and rich history of the sometimes forgotten hand-cranked street organ with rarely seen magical pieces such as the three shell game and the flea circus.​