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 by J.K. Rowling. My mom’s family agreed to take the … More Sorting My Family into Hogwarts Houses
Every year until I was in high school, my family would make the twelve-hour drive to Buffalo, New York to visit my maternal grandparents, Tom and Janice (Zielinski) Kuznicki. We would stay for a week or two at a time, and my sister and I would beg my grandmother to tell us stories the entire … More Janice & Joyce
Buffalo, New York earned the nickname “The City of Light” due to its early embrace of electric power and widespread electric lighting; since Canalside started their Light Shows, though, the nickname seems even more fitting. Each night of the year, from sunset until midnight, the Connecting Terminal bursts onto the Buffalo skyline with an illumination art … More Buffalo, The City of Light
Saturday, October 13, 1945 // Dunkirk Evening Observer
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, … More Hotel Henry’s Haunts
