David Pratt has spent a lifetime exploring and interpreting the visual environment. His work attends to the layered meanings, emotions and subtleties in the everyday field of vision.

Wilson Bentley was fascinated by snowflake design, aesthetically and scientifically. His example should serve as an inspiration to all.

Touring the American wilderness required an adventurous spirit in the early-19th century. Polish noblemen, poet and politician Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz had just that in 1805 when he visited Western New York, highlighting Niagara Falls and Buffalo in his journal. Niemcewicz's account provides valuable insight into the area more than 200 years ago.

This house for all seasons, comfortably at home in nature, rates among the best modern residential architecture in the region.