Blondin
On June 30 I posted about one of Blondin’s trips across the gorge. The Nashua Telegraph has some more detailed information (more than the blurb I put below):
Dressed in pink tights and a yellow tunic, world-class funambulist Jean-Francois Gravelet (better known as The Great Blondin due to his fair hair) became the first person to [...]
Continue reading about The Great Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope
According to the Minneapolis – St. Paul Star Tribune, on this day in 1859…
French acrobat Charles Blondin (born Jean Francois Gravelet) walked back and forth on a tightrope above the gorge of Niagara Falls as thousands of spectators watched.
Niagara Daredevils: Thrills and Spills over Niagara Falls
by Cheryl MacDonald
$7.95 US, $9.95 CDN
115 pages
Altitude Publishing
It is surprising the number of books out there that are about Niagara Falls (I have another posting where I will list a bunch of them). One that I received for review was Niagara Daredevils: Thrills and Spills over Niagara Falls [...]
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