A WALKING CONTRADICTION, HEINY FOUQUETTE has long been a short-standing member of the Marysville community. While truly one of a kind, he is at the same time one of three identical brothers, as alike and different as Guy Kibbee is to Princess Grace.
   Heiny and his brothers—Harcourt and Heathcliff—began life as midget foundlings, deposited anonymously on the home steps of Verne and Esme Fouquette, stalwart members of Puyallup's Calvinist community. A devout but childless couple, Verne and Esme consulted the scriptures and after much debate, adopted the brothers and christened them with the family name. However, as the years passed, the Fouquette triplets found it increasingly difficult to wear the mantle of Calvinism, and at the tender age of 13 ran away from home.
   Skillfully disguising their age, the brothers held numerous odd jobs as cat trainers, pastry chefs, airline stewards and wrestling referees, eventually earning enough money to begin a business venture:  Mitzvah This!, wherein the brothers, dressed as Barbra Streisand, performed numbers from Yentl! and Fiddler on the Roof for upscale bar and bot mitzvah events. The promising venture failed however when it became clear the brothers knew nothing about musicals, performing, nor any real knowledge or sensitivity to the mitzvah process. After being forcefully ejected from Temple Beth Shalom after faking the lyrics to If I Were A Rich Man, substituting the words:

"If I were a rich man, I would diddle deedle diddle yo' mama’s fiddle, num, num. All day long I'd diddley biddy bums."

for

"If I were a rich man, Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum. All day long I'd biddy biddy bum."

the brothers declared bankruptcy and moved to Marysville
...as luck would have it, on the very day Friedrich Foker's Fabuous Freaks—legendary circus extraordinaire—hit town.
   Initially hired as road crew, the brothers found circus life fit them like a glove, and eventually formed the Flying Fouquettes, applauded worldwide for their daring trapeze act until a glitch catapulted Heathcliff into a nearby cow pasture. Although unharmed, Heathcliff was never able to fly again, and the act was dissolved. Due to Harcourt's skilled financial investments, the brothers were able to buy out Foker's interest in the circus. Permanently anchoring the circus tent to Marysville's ground, Focker's Fabulous Freaks became Cirque de Marysville...and the rest, of course, is history.

photo captions:  [left]  Heiny poses with his adoptive father, Verne Fouquette; [right]  Heiny fearlessly takes on a female heckler at a Suki's ladies night wrestling match.