I spent the past week in Buffalo, New York visiting my aunt and cousins and grandparents; we stopped by the Broadway Market for makowiec and placek, spent an afternoon wandering around Forest Lawn Cemetery and went wine tasting in the Finger Lakes. My favorite part of the trip, though, was going through old family photos [...]
This week's family photo...
Since I started researching my genealogy in 2011, I've spent a lot of time in dusty old libraries. It's kind of a requirement; there are a number of records indexed and available online these days, but at some point, due to some brick wall, we all find ourselves sitting in front of a microfilm reader, [...]
Banner carried on North Carolina Equal Suffrage League float // May 20, 1914 I'd planned to meet a friend for lunch in Charlotte the other day, but she was running late (stuck at a never-ending bridal shower; the worst, am I right?). I decided to walk a couple of blocks to the Levine Museum of [...]
The Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane opened in 1880 and was considered to be, at the time, a state-of-the-art psychiatric treatment facility. In official publications, the city and the asylum promoted an image of a peaceful retreat for effective mental-health care, and they distributed photographs of the facility's grand pianos, welcoming parlors, well-stocked libraries, [...]
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