(Editor's note: A version of this story originally appeared in 2015.)Four years after the The Guinness Book of Records first published in 1955, an Indianapolis business owner had a brilliant idea for ...
What makes someone agree to spend days or months atop a flagpole in all kinds of weather, as one Alabama teen did in 1963? When the fad began, the motive was publicity. Gadsden resident Peggy Townsend ...
In July that year, the 50-year-old Kansas native set out to break the world pole-sitting record that, at the time, stood at 23 days, a record set by Alvin 'Shipwreck” Kelly of New York. Penfield ...
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