If you don’t think something can be both quiet and raucous as the same time, then you’ve never experienced this event. The map of Greater Western New York used to be dotted with them every summer, but rising insurance rates have dwindled their numbers to a mere few. The one […]

This “Miracle on Phipps Road” embodied the very character that is Greater Western New York.

Here’s a story that hides the true hidden gem behind it.

This article also answers the question: “If Greater Western New York were a state, what city would be its capital?”

Let the reader beware, this is most definitely a trick question. Back in the late eighteenth century, the Greater Western New York region contained few European settlers. The Niagara Frontier really was a frontier back then. Yet the territory represented a not-so-hidden gem to the politicians of a fledging America. […]

Who were they, what happened to them and what was their everlasting imprint on our region?

After we burned Newark, the British and their Indian allies returned the favor. But, what’s telling isn’t that we couldn’t stop them, it’s what we did next.