It's Dyngus Day, the Polish and Polish-American holiday celebrated on Easter Monday each year to signal the end of Lent. Growing up, we never missed the party: I remember driving into Buffalo the day after Easter and wading through the sea of red and white to watch the parades, stopping by The Broadway Market for [...]
Wednesday, August 18, 1837 // Dunkirk Evening Observer
It was known as "Dunkirk's Bright Spot;" Johnny Hamernik's Café at 182 East Second Street in Dunkirk, New York featured dining, dancing and the occasional boxing match on Friday nights. The kitchen served fish fry, shrimp cocktails, roast beef sandwiches and hamburgers, and there was a rotating parade of local performers, everyone from The Tempo [...]
This week's 52 Ancestors prompt is "Dear Diary," but I've only inherited one diary over the years. I wrote about it a few months ago, too: the diary belonged to Maude (Merrill) Hammond in 1948, and she penned a few lines each day about the weather or her shopping trips for the entire year. It's [...]
Applegate Genealogy 
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