Follow Fink's journey from a medieval Norman farmhouse to the nightlife of occupied Paris and his final trek by foot over the Pyrenees Mountains to freedom.

The Big Sisters of women's higher education in America (Wells, Wellesley, Vassar, Smith and Bryn Mawr) lost one of their own pioneer institutions.

Buffalo's wooden elevators were opportunistic wonders of design and invention. They bridged the time gap between the age of wooden sailing vessels and the architecture of 20th century modernism.

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.

It's hard to imagine the immense hotels bustling with halcyon summer activities. Lakewood, near Jamestown, was like a self-contained fairyland utopia, the essence of a resort community.

The Montezuma Swamp may be outside our immediate area, but it is familiar to us all from travel on the NYS Thruway. Doug Farley tells the story of how this immense obstacle was overcome in the building of the Great Erie Canal.

The now-gone McBride's in the First Ward reminds us that a building is more than bricks and mortar.