Prompt #1904 Daring the Falls — The Writing Reader

On October 24, 1901, 63-year-old Michigan school teacher Annie Edson Taylor became the first person to go over the falls in a barrel as a publicity stunt; she survived, bleeding, but otherwise unharmed. Soon after exiting the barrel, she said, “No one ought ever do that again.” Before Taylor’s attempt, on October 19 a domestic…

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