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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
2003
Overview
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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The Christian Science Publishing Society (d/b/a \"The Christian Science Monitor\"), trusteeship under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
