United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.500181708/2022The young Lulu Hurst made holding onto a cane nearly impossible for grown men in one of her most famous demonstrations.Photograph of the young Lulu Hurst, the "Georgia Wonder," making holding onto a cane nearly impossible for grown men in one of her most famous demonstrations. She wears a long black dress, and a man stands next to her gripping the cane. Beginning in 1883, several young women from Georgia astonished the nation by demonstrating strange powers in their vaudeville acts. For years afterward, they were among the most popular and controversial variety performers in America and Europe. Lulu Hurst, the first Georgia Wonder, was born in 1869 in Polk County, Georgia. In September 1883 she gained local attention by demonstrating mysterious abilities: chairs, canes, and umbrellas, held by others, seemed gripped by an invisible power when Hurst touched them lightly.image/jpeghttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/georgia-wonder-phenomenonForms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/georgia-wonder-phenomenonForms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaVaudeville--GeorgiaMagic tricks--GeorgiaEntertainers--GeorgiaWomen entertainers--GeorgiaMen--GeorgiaWomen--GeorgiaSpiritualists--GeorgiaAmusements--GeorgiaStaffs (Sticks, canes, etc.)--GeorgiaHurst, Lulu, 1869-1950Lulu Hurst's Cane ActStillImage