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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Rhinelander’s Daredevil Dault: The Man Who Defied Death
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:03:16
	Publish Date:		2021-06-02 10:24:53
	Description:		An equilibrist is an acrobat who performs daring feats of uncanny balance. This includes tightrope walkers, trapeze artists, tumblers, or any sort of skilled human balancing act. A daredevil is a recklessly and often ostentatiously daring person. When the two are combined you get Rhinelander’s own Daredevil Dault. Adelard and Victoria Dault moved to Rhinelander from Merrill around the turn of the century. Their son, Albert Henry Dault, was born in Rhinelander in January 1902. Albert was a fun-loving child who earned the nickname “Bolly.” During his childhood, Bolly Dault was well known around Rhinelander and could often be found on Brown Street earning nickels from local shoppers as he performed handstands and other tumbling tricks. As Bolly Dault got older, his tricks became more daring. He began doing handstands on the backrest of kitchen chairs and on the tops of ladders. In his late teens, Bolly Dault worked for a short time at the paper mill, refrigerator plant, and Thunder Lake
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