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America's first celebrity daredevil: Sam Patch thumbed his nose at the upper class -- then went over the edge
2003
Overview
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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Postmedia Network Inc
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