From WIVB Channel 4 in Buffalo: With one day before his high wire walk over the Niagara Falls, Nik Wallenda spent the morning to teach some local school kids how to succeed on the tightrope. Wallenda gave the students a behind-the-scenes look at what his walk on Friday will be like from Terrapin Point. He…
From Stuff.co.nz: Nik Wallenda can’t visit a new place without envisioning a wire strung high above his head: Linking buildings, landmarks, nations. Even as a 6-year-old at Niagara Falls with his parents, he pictured walking a tightrope over the raging, whitewater maw. Now 33, the seventh-generation member of the famed Flying Wallendas, is ready to…
From the New York Times (including some kids’ drawings): The Kids Draw the News assignment to do a drawing about Nik Wallenda’s plan to cross high above Niagara Falls on a tightrope Friday night drew a bunch of lovely submissions. Some of them are in the slide show above.
We just passed this event a week ago, so I figured I’d mention it. It happened on June 7, 1939 From American Heritage: King George VI and Queen Elizabeth cross over from Canada to Niagara Falls, New York, becoming the first British monarchs to visit the United States.
Last week I received this email newsletter from Safari Niagara.
I usually post an email newsletter first thing in the morning, but there have been just too many that have come in over the last couple of days regarding Nik Wallenda. There was an article in the paper yesterday that said there are still rooms available, and that the hotels were only getting 10-20% more…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Nik Wallenda was driving across the Rainbow Bridge Wednesday when he looked over and saw the result of months of planning and hard work. The five-centimetre-wide wire he’ll use to walk across Niagara Falls Friday night was installed, and Wallenda was seeing it in place for the first time. “When…
Last week I received an email newsletter from the Marriott Niagara Falls Fallsview & Spa. You can subscribe to the newsletter by clicking on the Special Email Offers link on the side of the Marriott Niagara Falls Fallsview & Spa main page.
I have been to, and eaten fudge from the Fudge Factory on Clifton Hill and the Hershey store on Falls Avenue. Until a few days ago, I had never heard of the Niagara Falls Fudge Co. The line under the name says “a second generation family tradition”. I assume they have moved from another location,…
From WNYC Public Radio (you can listen to the 5-minute audio segment): Niagara Falls has long been a magnet for daredevils, but strict laws have kept them away for more than a century. That’s expected to change Friday, when circus performer Nik Wallenda will walk a two-inch-thick wire above the giant waterfall. It’s an exception…