virtual vacation

Apparently some people weren’t venturing too far from home 150 years ago.

vacationing in place

What they might have been missing:

from the Canadian side

I’m so old I sort of remember when they turned off the American Falls when I was going to school. As it turns out that happened the same year a couple men walked on the moon and a whole bunch of people rocked Woodstock. The CBC explains scientists studied the erosion that “threatened to ‘flatten out the American Falls and make them disappear altogether'”.

flattening the fall (1931)

holiday in the head

I’ve never been to Newport but no problem, thanks to Youtube. According to its documentation this performance took place exactly a month before 9/11.

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real solitude?

According to Project Gutenberg the cartoons were published in Punchinello – Niagara on July 23, 1870 and Newport on July 30, 1870. The Canadian view before rock falls in 1931 and 1954 shortened the American drop (CBC) comes from The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts, by George W. Holley also at Project Gutenberg. I found the photo of the Maid of the Mist (1859) at Wikimedia. The bird’s eye view from 1931 is from the National Archives and also at Wikimedia. Four from the Library of Congress said to be published by George Stacy between 1860 and ca. 1865: group portrait; on the edge; sitting solo lower and higher

virtual vicarious vacation