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Last updated on Wednesday, September 12, 2018
(BLOOMINGTON) - Indiana University School of Optometry associate professor Nicholas Port spends his evenings flying in the sky.
For more than 30 years, he's been a catcher for the Bloomington High Flyers, a local circus and trapeze club founded by former IU faculty member Bernadette Pace. Port joined the group when he was a high school student in the 1980s, and he's been soaring in Pace's backyard ever since.
Pace's interest in the trapeze started in 1970 when she took a trip to her local YMCA in Denver. That trip changed her life.
She took a leap and participated in her first acrobatic class. She said the first time she flew, she fell in love. She continued to fly until her husband was relocated to Bloomington in the early 1980s. Fearful that she would never fly again, she installed a trapeze rig in the backyard of her new Hoosier home.
The rig still stands in Pace's backyard and continues to be the trapeze home for Port and all of the Bloomington High Flyers.
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