October 25, 2006

From American Heritage: A hundred and five years ago today, Annie Taylor became the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. She was 63 years old, a widow, and a failed dancing school teacher—an unlikely candidate for such an exploit. But she survived, and her name goes down in history as not…

From Niagara This Week: There was a sense of summer running through the city at a very unseasonable time of year. It wasn’t the weather, which was a very un-summery, rainy and cool, but rather the thousands of people who flocked to the city to take part in the Fallsview Casino Resort International Marathon Sunday….