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Research your Buffalo, NY USA ancestors and architecture at BuffaloResearch.com. Buffalo's oldest surviving website, founded 1993, run by a librarian. Plus local resistance stuff. #BuffaloResearch #skybrarians #skystorians #DocumentTheResistance
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Occasional reminder that libraries, museums & archives are not rescue & rehabilitation clinics for your broken stuff. 🗃️📜

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The chronology of General Lafayette's visit to #Buffalo in 1825 is online here: archive.org/details/lafa...

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Two hundred years ago, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, visited Niagara Falls, the soon to be opened Erie Canal, and Lockport, NY, on his tour of the United States. youtu.be/wY6qaPVCf7M?...

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A veritable Canadian flotilla. Niagara Friday.

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Good news: Japanese researchers may have found an explanation for long Covid and a possible treatment for it.

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Reference librarians at end of day Friday. 📚🗃️📜

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Ola Volo is introducing an immersive garden experience to the urban Monocle area at 1235 Hertel Ave., just west of Commonwealth Avenue. The piece stretches across several areas to serve as a walking gallery of a continuous story. buffalonews.com/news/local/a...

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St. Lois RC Church. Buffalo Thursday.

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This arrived today and my opinion of Chris Scanlon just went from neutral to active dislike. You're not running against India Walton, you chucklehead.

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I’m doing font analysis

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The Central Terminal Restoration Corp. said that its previously selected developers will transform the adjacent Mail & Baggage Building and Post Office Building into 90 to 110 affordable housing units and other potential uses.

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One of the all-time great book titles from the #Buffalo area: archive.org/details/bloo... #WeirdWednesday

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Ask me about bunny dogs, which, as far as I know, were invented in Tonawanda, NY. bsky.app/profile/mdru...

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The Congress for New Urbanism puts routes 33 & 198 on its 2025 Freeways Without a Future list. #Buffalo #urbanists www.cnu.org/highways-bou...

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An essay about the multiple "last photos" of McKinley. www.historynet.com/who-snapped-...

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVxH... NEW VIDEO! The Floppy Archival Project Working on backing up hundreds of floppy disks to @archive.org, but not only that, showing how to do the hardware/software setup so anyone can do the same going forward into the future.

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Buffalonians will recall the Battle of Ridgeway as the Fenian Raid.

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June 2, 1866: The Battle of Ridgeway was fought between Canadian troops and the Fenians. This was the largest battle of the Fenian Raids, and the first modern industrial-era battle fought by Canadians. A Fenian victory, it was also the last battle fought within Ontario against a foreign invasion.

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Post a female character you love

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ICYMI: Dan Higgins explains why it makes perfect sense for Buffalo to be the home of the future James Joyce Museum, even though it's a city he had no connection to in his lifetime.

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www.thebaltimorebanner.com/economy/buff...

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Erie County's grant funded Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) Team responds to natural disasters and assisted our neighbors after the Tops Shooting. President Trump's Budget eliminates all funding for PHEP teams. This is a terrible decision that will hurt communities across the US. 1/2

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Thousands of revelers marched down Elmwood Avenue for the 2025 Pride Parade on Sunday.

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Buffalo takes a bow. bsky.app/profile/cycl...

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🔔 Neurodivergent archive accessibility workshop! 🔔 Are you a neurodivergent researcher using archives, an archivist interested in accessibility, or a neurodivergent archivist? Apply for our first 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' workshop at Imperial War Museums, London, on 4th July!

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Just getting a head start on Pride in #Buffalo.

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Yesterday, our community marked the 120th anniversary of the unveiling of Ely Parker’s grave marker at Forest Lawn. This initiative was spearheaded by Erie County Historical Commission Commissioner Melissa Leonard, a descendant of Ely Parker. 1/4

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Born in #Buffalo.

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Gotta re-up this every now and then. 🗃️📚📜

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Cars are no longer allowed on a one-block stretch of Chippewa Street on summer weekend nights. "We want to bring the street back," said bar owner Dan Markovich. buffalonews.com/news/local/a...

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The annual June 1 activities that open Pride Month in Buffalo will look a bit different this year, with a new all-day event at Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino in downtown Buffalo. buffalonews.com/life-enterta...

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It feels surreal on those rare occasions when I suggest to someone that the info they need is in a book and apparently this is a whole new idea for them. 📚🗃️

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