You can tell a lot about a person by the house they’re sorted into at Hogwarts, or so I've been told. Back in December, I sorted my family members--Gramps, Grandma, Mom and Aunt Holly--into Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff and Slytherin, respectively, and I've decided to sort the previous generation of Kuznicki's and Zielinski's this month. There's [...]
Left to Right: Gramps, Aunt Holly, Mom & Grandma, 1993 You can tell a lot about a person by the house they're sorted into at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I grew up in the 1990s and, unsurprisingly, some of the first books that I fell in love with were the Harry Potter series [...]
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, [...]
Wuerstle's Tavern is often at the center of my grandfather's story. Gramps was having a drink at the bar when John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960; when President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963; when Martin Luther King, Jr., was shot and killed in 1968; and when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in [...]
Over Labor Day Weekend this year, I visited my aunt and cousins in Buffalo, New York. On my last full day in the city, we went on a walking tour of Delaware Avenue and the Midway Row Houses: the tour provided a glimpse into society life of Buffalo’s business elite in the nineteenth and early twentieth [...]
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