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A daredevil's life story lluminates a changing world ; Diving into history
\"For ten minutes he stood on the little platform. The ladder veered in the wind and under his weight; the flag snapped above him. [Sam Patch] took the scarf from his neck and tied it around his waist. He scanned the audience, bowing to his left and right. (Sam was learning how to work a crowd.) . . . Sam turned and took a corner of the flag in his hand, and kissed it. Then he stepped to the edge and stood still, and the crowd fell silent. Sam jumped outward and dropped into the abyss.\"
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The politics of going over Niagara in a barrel ; Sam Patch thumbed his nose at America's upper class - and then went over the edge
Patch was born in 1799 to Greenleaf Patch, a ne'er-do-well opportunist prone to \"drunkenness and melancholy,\" and Abigail Patch, a respectable woman from a respectable rural family. Greenleaf's inability to hold down jobs or be a decent husband and father led to several moves, with the family eventually settling in Pawtucket, R.I. There, young [Sam Patch] (at age 7 or 8) began the monotonous and dangerous work of a cotton mill. The kid was good. Then Patch repeated such stunts at Niagara Falls (twice) and in Rochester, the midpoint of the Erie Canal, garnering wild cheers from working-class masses and crumple-faced condemnation from genteel society. Now, Patch was a national personage. For [Paul Johnson], Patch's repeated raspberries to the self-appointed guardians of art, nature, and culture serve as a microcosm of the developing debates surrounding Jacksonian America. To wealthy champions of a republic, Patch was a buffoon and publicity seeker, an emblem of why full democracy was a frightening prospect. Further, Patch spoiled the sublime feelings such aesthetes attached to these wonders of nature.
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Kingsbury tries on Sam Patch persona
\"When I was writing this record I would sequence together a drum loop or some kind of synth pattern,\" said [Tim Kingsbury], who began Sam Patch a year ago. \"Then I would start playing an organ or a guitar along with it, improvise different parts and then cobble them together into songs. As a result, I think the whole songwriting process and album has a compelling sort of vibe to it. I wouldn't necessarily associate that kind of approach with Harry Nilsson, Devo or Fleetwood Mac (sonic reference points in Kingsbury's head during the writing/recording process) but I think it's almost like them playing along to some kind of drum loop,\" he muses. Kingsbury says other Sam Patch touring members, (with Arcade Fire's [Jeremy Gara], and keys player [Matt Brown]) include Toronto singer/songwriter Basia Bulat, who he met at Hotel 2 Tango when [Howard Bilerman] asked him to play bass on one of Bulat's albums. Kingsbury also co-produced Bulat's last record \"Tall Tall Shadow.\" \"It's unfortunate that I do not have music to share so I can give people a taste of what it is like,\" hints Kingsbury with a mischievous laugh, referring to [Sam Patch]'s weird rock sound. \"But I promise it will be a very fun show.\"
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Kingsbury tries on Sam Patch persona
\"When I was writing this record I would sequence together a drum loop or some kind of synth pattern,\" said [Tim Kingsbury], who began Sam Patch a year ago. \"Then I would start playing an organ or a guitar along with it, improvise different parts and then cobble them together into songs. As a result, I think the whole songwriting process and album has a compelling sort of vibe to it. I wouldn't necessarily associate that kind of approach with Harry Nilsson, Devo or Fleetwood Mac (sonic reference points in Kingsbury's head during the writing/recording process) but I think it's almost like them playing along to some kind of drum loop,\" he muses. Kingsbury says other Sam Patch touring members, (with Arcade Fire's [Jeremy Gara], and keys player [Matt Brown]) include Toronto singer/songwriter Basia Bulat, who he met at Hotel 2 Tango when [Howard Bilerman] asked him to play bass on one of Bulat's albums. Kingsbury also co-produced Bulat's last record \"Tall Tall Shadow.\" \"It's unfortunate that I do not have music to share so I can give people a taste of what it is like,\" hints Kingsbury with a mischievous laugh, referring to [Sam Patch]'s weird rock sound. \"But I promise it will be a very fun show.\"
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[Sam Patch] was a legend in America in the 1800s. As a boy in Rhode Island, he and fellow daredevils used to jump from the bridge above local falls or from the roofs of the cotton mills where they worked. He became known far and wide as The Yankee Leaper, and a year after the Hoboken jump he was invited to leap down Niagara Falls. On October 17, 1829, he made his way to Goat Island, which overlooks the falls, and climbed a swaying platform made from four trees bound together. His next jump was to be from a platform set up on the heights above the same falls. Eerily, it and billed as 'Sam's Last Jump' - prophetically.
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America's first celebrity daredevil: Sam Patch thumbed his nose at the upper class -- then went over the edge
Enter Patch. To thwart [Tim Crane]'s self-aggrandizing celebration of his \"improvements\" in 1827, Patch bounded from the bridge in front of a large crowd. He leapt again during a class-based dispute over the town's Fourth of July celebration, then again during the town's first labour walkout. He began to get notice in local and regional newspapers. Then Patch repeated such stunts at Niagara Falls (twice) and in Rochester, the midpoint of the Erie Canal, garnering wild cheers from working-class masses and crumple-faced condemnation from genteel society. Now, Patch was a national personage. For [Paul Johnson], Patch's repeated raspberries to the self-appointed guardians of art, nature and culture serve as a microcosm of the developing debates surrounding Jacksonian America. To wealthy champions of a republic, Patch was a buffoon and publicity seeker, an emblem of why full democracy was a frightening prospect. Further, Patch spoiled the sublime feelings such esthetes attached to these wonders of nature.
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SLOW AND STEADY ; ONCE `CLINTON'S DITCH,' ERIE CANAL OFFERS LOVELY, LANGUID CRUISING
The Erie Canal is more than 300 miles long and can be accessed at numerous points along its east-to-west route between Albany and Buffalo, but its most developed tourism facilities are between Syracuse and Buffalo and include (heading east to west) Seneca Falls, Palmyra, Fairport, Pittsford and Lockport. The canal is open from early May through late November. Visit www.canals.state.ny.us for information on touring the canal, renting a canal houseboat to biking from inn to inn along the canal, or call 800-4CANAL4. Lockport, which bills itself as the \"Historic Jewel of the Erie Canal\" is overstating the situation quite a bit when it comes to its downtown, but the sight of the dramatic drop -- now accomplished with two locks instead of the previous five -- will stick with visitors for a lifetime. At the base of the steep locks and overlooking the canal is the one-room museum with a scratchy video of canal history and glass cases with some canal memorabilia. The view is more impressive than the museum. For a treat on especially hot days, consider the underground boat ride and tour of the Lockport caves. Call 716-438-0174. PHOTO 1,2: (color), TOP PHOTO COURTESY OF NEW YORK STATE CANAL CORPS; BOTTOM PHOTO COURTESY OF ERIE CANAL MUSEUM GRAPHIC: (color map), JOSUE EVILLA / THE HARTFORD COURANT RIKKI VAN CAMP / ASSOCIATED PRESS; 1,2 -- THE WATERFORD CANAL FESTIVAL at Waterford, N.Y., above, is one of many activities along the Erie Canal, which the state of New York is aggressively pushing as a tourist destination. Below, this 1850s weighlock building along the Erie Canal in Syracuse, N.Y., is currently a museum dedicated to the Erie Canal and the only surviving canal boat weighing station. AMANDA ROGERS, 14, tried to cast her line into the Erie Canal in Macedon, N.Y., and accidentally cast half her fishing pole along with it. Her friend Katherine Madden, 11, tries to pull the pole back to the dock. Holly Karge, 12, is trying to bait her hook.
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SAM PATCH
[SAM PATCH]'s shipmates teasingly frightened him by telling him that he would lose his head if he went ashore in Japan. He was frightened. \"All the while they sailed, he was apprehending that some ill would befall his neck and was constantly repeating 'Shimpai!
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'New Jersey Jumper' first at Niagara Falls ; Paterson's Samuel Patch became folk hero
Patch was well-known before his death-defying feats at Niagara Falls. Born in Rhode Island in 1807, Patch moved to Paterson and leapt into fame when he dove over the Great Falls in Paterson on Sept. 30, 1827. Patch had no such luck on his next stunt after Niagara Falls, billed prophetically as his last, which was a leap into the Genesee Falls in Rochester, N.Y. He was determined, he said, \"to astonish the natives of the West before returning to the Jerseys.\" PHOTO - A poster announcing [Samuel Patch]'s jump at Genesee Falls in Rochester, N.Y. He apparently saw no problem jumping on Friday the 13th. Patch got his start jumping at the Great Falls in Paterson.
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