Are you thinking about your retirement?
They say it’s important, and even back in 1901, it was something people needed to think about.
I mean, that’s what Annie Edison Taylor, a retired school teacher, was thinking about when she decided to ride Niagara Falls in a barrel:
Taylor’s husband had died in the Civil War, and the New York native spent the rest of the century roaming the US and Mexico, picking up teaching gigs for a while before wandering off to another spot.
After she read an article about the World’s Fair and Niagara Falls, she decided to seek fame, fortune, and a secure retirement by riding over the Falls in a barrel.
People had been doing tight-rope walks over the Falls and shooting the rapids below the Falls in barrels, and at least one person had survived a dive from the top, but she would be the first to ride over the Falls in a barrel.
The barrel was specially made to go over the falls. It…
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