A local organization is making positive strides to document and preserve our region’s Hispanic heritage.
Originating with the Graduates Association of Buffalo Seminary, this exclusive women’s club continues to promote education and the arts in this, its third century. Michelle Kratts documents several of the notable figures who laid the foundations for this social and cultural institution.
In 1850, a group of Buffalo’s leading citizens gathered to discuss the educational opportunities for their daughters. Over 150 years later, Buffalo Seminary remains one of the nation’s outstanding academic institutions for young women.
The Buffalo Automobile Club is pictured here in its first "run," an impromptu afternoon parade that did not include all the members.
The birth of Spiritualism is traced to the Fox sisters of Hydesville, NY in the 1840s. But a community devoted to this unique religion developed in Chautauqua County and remains vibrant today.
In the late 1800s, crusaders in Chautauqua County led a movement by launching the state’s first county suffrage association, influencing public sentiment and hosting several highly attended pro-suffrage events.
A noted landscape painter in her own right, Buffalo schoolteacher, Clara Langenbach taught her students to create, appreciate and judge artwork, alongside lessons about honesty, respect and character.
An annual Turkey Trot runner himself, Matthew Biddle presents the history of the oldest consecutively run footrace in the country.
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Through a partnership with Christopher Behrend Photography, we bring you this photography book showing the end result of the restoration of the Art Nouveau murals in the North Park Theatre.
Through a partnership with Christopher Behrend Photography, we bring you this unique collection of the most intense & beautiful winter icescapes-captured during the incredible winter months of 2019.