The Great Farini

Shane Peacock
Biographer, Novelist, Playwright, Journalist, Screenwriter
Author of The Great Farini - The High-Wire Life of William Hunt

The Lives of Farini-Hunt - Sky Walking (Part Four)

Shane describes his final efforts before reaching the Canadian side! “Soon the spectators on the Canadian side had such a good view of him that they could see the blue of his eyes. He came up the cable towards them struggling, his legs shaking slightly but his attitude tenacisous. He seemed to be falling forward with each step as though there were a hevy weight pressing him down. He climbed the final few yards in near desperation until his foot finally touched wood…and safely. Forty minutes after starting out on the longest and most perilous high wire ever strung at Niagara Falls twenty-two-year old Bill Hunt was alive and standing on Canadian soil. The huge crowd erupted in cheers. At that age he valued praise above almost anything: this was his “kind of glory”. The shouts of Port Hope and Bowmanville people in the crowd touched him even in the intensity of the moment. He was just the second human being to do this and a righteousness swelled up inside him: he wished all his doubters could see him now.”

NOTE: Mr. Peacock has written several books. His latest series is about "The Boy Sherlock Holmes" This is a wonderful look at the legendary Sherlock Holmes, in the beginning! To learn more about Shane and all of his works, please visit his website at www.shanepeacock.ca.

(To Be Continued)