A close look at the image accompanying this column tells the story of an exciting day in Manitowoc in the year 1874. The man seen perilously perched upon the tightrope in downtown Manitowoc is Charles ...
For more than 40 years, visitors to Niagara Falls, Ontario, have gazed upward to a fiberglass likeness of 19th-century tightrope walker Charles Blondin occupying not only his fabled wire, but his ...