GADSDEN, Alabama – It was a cold December day 50 years ago when a tiny teenage girl climbed a ladder to spend Christmas alone on a 6 foot-by-7-foot platform high in the air. That girl was Peggy ...
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 ...
(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 ...
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