Gunther Gebel-Williams Statue

As the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus made their winter home here in Venice for many years, so did it's performers and workers.  Some choose Venice as their home and where active in the community after the circus as well.  One of those was famed animal trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams.

Mr. Williams died in his Venice home in 2001.  Today his life in this community is honored  with a statue in his memory standing by the train station that he and his Circus family departed from and arrived to with great fan fair for many years.