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Lackawanna Local Hero: Life and Times of Colonel Jean Baptiste Weber

The Congressman, traveler, farmer and writer is remembered.

Demolition of the Martin House Apartments in 2001.

The 1960s decision to locate SUNY Buffalo north of the city proper still haunts us today. Here are the reflections of Robert Coles, architect and activist for UB on the waterfront, on those controversial times.

Honeymoon Bridge is Falling Down, Falling Down

The bridge collapse was a turning point in this young radio broadcaster's career, when space-age communication systems were not available.

Old Photo Album: Collapse of the Honeymoon Bridge, 1938

Very early on a January morning, the force of nature met early steel span technology, resulting in a tremendous wreck; a record number of people rushed to view the scene, and many of them brought cameras.

All My Life I Have Loved Trains

A man who continued to do what fascinated him in childhood, and eventually created a business with it. describes how he came under the spell of the model railroad.

The Commercial Slip, Part II - Wheeler's Hotel: A Microcosm of Buffalo's Famous Canal District

A drama created not from the imagination but from concrete excavation, paintings and drawings of the time, legal documents and site observation. What it was like to stand on the Buffalo waterfront before the railroads, when the only highway was on the water.

James B. Parker Revisited

The man who knocked McKinley's assassin to the ground at the Temple of Music was feted in the press and honored by fellow citizens, until the case came to trial. Daryl Rasuli tells what happened next, and why it is important.

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