June 2012
2 posts
“Let this institution be the grand repository of everything calculated to throw...”
– Millard Fillmore, founder and president (1862-1867), on the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society
January 2012
7 posts
Blizzard of 1977: Where Were You?
Trish: I remember that storm.. I had to sleep at my school.. Volunteers brought us mcdonalds via snow mobile!
Denise: The blizzard of 77 was awesome, I've never in my life since seen a blizzard like it, my brothers jumped off of the roof into the snow, I'm surpized we didn't have to dig them out...
Marie: Riding on the back of a tractor from school to home.
Kerry: selling out of food in my parent's store - it took 1/2 hour to walk two blocks -and that's when we were in shape!
Marie: Got stuck at home with my Mom,dad was stranded in Buffalo at the Ford plant n my brother got stuck at a friends. Dad called after 3 days n had me n Mom shovel enough room for the car, thought I was gonna have a stroke!!!!
John: Hitchhiking down Delamater trying to get to Derby. Almost walked into a running vehicle that I helped push through a snow drift. Got a ride to Schyler. Good day I guess.
Winter of '77 Album- so much snow! →
Buffalo History website! →
“The history of the Great Lakes is an interesting theme. It directly concerns...”
– J. B. Mansfield, History of the Great Lakes Vol. I, Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1899
November 2011
2 posts
“A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the...”
– Grover Cleveland, former Mayor of Buffalo (1882) who went on to be the only President of the United States to serve two non-consecutive terms
