Niagara

“I can get them at a lower price at other stores now, same water since it’s all Niagara.”

Bowman’s mother, who died in 2019, had always wanted to visit Niagara Falls, N.Y., so that is where Bowman went to celebrate zeroing out her student debt.

For decades, Marineland was a destination for Canadian children and their parents who wanted an up-close look at ocean-life near Niagara Falls.

He made a once-popular parlor instrument brand new, punching every piano roll himself and then letting the machine play faster than any dozen real-life pianists could, making for palpable Niagaras of sound.

For him, backcountry flying is just another mode of sightseeing, like hiking through Yosemite or boating beneath Niagara Falls.