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In 1962, a little girl made a big presentation to President Kennedy during Pulaski Day ceremonies at Buffalo City Hall. A look at the thousands who filled Niagara Square that day.

Anna Katharine Green: Mother of the Detective Novel

The Buffalo author brings respectability to crime writing as husband Charles Rohlfs plies his art to the stage and design.

Old Photo Album: Glass Plate Images from a Hundred or So Summers Ago

An intriguing array of recently discovered glass plate negatives of area summer scenes from a hundred and more years ago, which readers are invited to help identify.

Brothers in Arms

The World War II monument just unveiled in Washington elicits memories of a family at war, the loyalty and courage each demonstrated in his own way.

The Goodrich-Landow Log Cabin: A Document of Pioneer History

Painstaking restorative efforts have made this early 19th-century log cabin the best surviving example of housing built by the earliest Holland Land Purchase settlers.

Buffalo's Edgar Allan Poe Mystery

Like the haunting beat of "The Tell-Tale Heart," questions of the whereabouts of Poe's gold watch in Buffalo continue to tick away in this revisited account.

The House of Twain: 472 Delaware

Thirteen months of ecstatic highs and tragic lows in the life of Mark Twain and his bride at their wedding gift residence in Buffalo.

The Shelby Earthworks: An Ancient Indian Fort

Just southwest of Medina are "the remains of one of the most interesting ancient earthworks in the State." Archaeological findings over the past 40 years have reinterpreted the roots of this Indian site from early America.

Western New York Heritage

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