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A Permanent Art Gallery for Buffalo: Magnificent Fulfillment of a 157-Year-Old Vision

We mark the two-year closing of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery's Elmwood Avenue facility with a retrospective on the institution's beginnings and physical evolution.

D-Day Remembered: Saving Sergeant Niland

We mark the 75^th anniversary of the Normandy Invasion with a look at some of Tonawanda’s real-life soldiers and the inspiration for Steven Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan.”

Metamorphosis of a War Criminal: Bell’s Rocket Genius

Following the Second World War, Dr. Walter Dornberger was one of many former Nazis who launched a second career in America’s space program.

Endnotes: William H. Loos: 1937-2017

We remember a founding member of Western New York Heritage.

Buffalo and the Great War, Part III: Home Fires Kept Burning: 1917-1918

The final installment of our three-part series explores how Western New York supported America’s entry into the First World War, as well as the celebration that took place once peace was declared.

Buffalo and the Great War, Part II: Keeping Out of War

The second installment of our three-part series examines the final years leading up to America’s declaration of war in 1917, as tensions rise and the region deals with issues of ethnicity and preparedness.

The Canisius College Passion Play: Epic Revival of a Theatrical Epic

The Passion Play staged by Canisius College in the early 20th century were on a scale the likes of which the city of Buffalo had never seen. Here we revisit these epic theatrical productions.

Buffalo and the Great War, Part I: The War Before the War

Long before America went “over there,” Western New York had to cope with some unique realities in the opening years of the First World War. In part one of a three-part series, we look at a usually peaceful region during the years of true neutrality.

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