An Insider’s View of the TR Site
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Follow this link to watch Don Haas's presentation on YouTube. Last month, the TR Site had the pleasure of welcoming environmental educator Dr. Don Haas from the Paleontological Research Institution to its ongoing Speaker Nite series. His talk, “Fire & Brimstone & Fort McMurray: Considering the Implications of Apocalyptic Rhetoric in...
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It’s a time of transition at the TR Site. As the spring semester draws to a close and the summer gets underway, we have interns coming and going. We recently bid a fond farewell to intern Leah Glenn, a graduate student in Buffalo State’s Museum Studies program. Leah discovered her passion for collections work while doing ...
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As we head into June and wedding season kicks into high gear, it brings to my mind all of the times that we hear from a visitor that “my parents/grandparents/aunt and uncle/second cousin once removed [or some version thereof] had their wedding reception here.” Many of those folks are referring to the time between 1938 and 1961 when 641 ...
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Follow this link to watch Tom Kerr's presentation on YouTube. The TR Site’s April Speaker Nite featured Tom Kerr, the Audubon Society’s Naturalist and Niagara River IBA Specialist. His presentation, "Community Science: Continuing a Long Tradition,” explored the many ways individuals can get involved with science, the environment...
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The official goal of Buffalo’s 1901 Pan-American Exposition was to commemorate the achievements of the 19th century and “to illustrate the progress and civilization of the nations of the Western Hemisphere.” However, for those visitors not interested in solely the educational aspects of the fair and looking to have a little fun, t...
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Follow this link to watch Elizabeth Garner Masarik's presentation on YouTube. The TR Site’s ongoing Speaker Nite series recently featured Elizabeth Garner Masarik, a historian of the welfare state and women in Progressive Era America and a PhD candidate in History at the University at Buffalo. Her presentation, “Women, Babies, and Dea...
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This month’s Artifact-of-the-Month is a stereoview of Theodore Roosevelt. Stereoviews (or stereographs, stereograms, or stereopticans) are cards that have two nearly identical views of the same image. When placed in a viewer, they give the image a 3-dimensional effect. Stereoviews were popular from mid-1800’s until around the end of Wor...
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Follow this link to watch Caitlin Blue’s presentation on YouTube. This past month, we partnered with the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center to bring Caitlin Blue to the TR Site for our ongoing Speaker Nite series. Ms. Blue is a Visitor Experience Specialist and historian who focuses on making history accessible to t...
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Since March is Women’s History Month, we are highlighting paintings of three Wilcox women. Mary Grace Rumsey Wilcox was the “lady of the house” at 641 Delaware Avenue. She was Ansley’s second wife and the sister of his first wife. When Mary Grace and Ansley married in 1883, she became stepmother to her three-year-ol...
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Follow this link to watch Dr. Adam Rome’s presentation on YouTube. For our first Speaker Nite of 2019, we featured Dr. Adam Rome, professor of environmental history at the University at Buffalo. His talk, "Fashion Forward? Reflections on the Environmental History of Style” explored the environmental impact of a world driven b...
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The Site’s historic collection contains a wide variety of souvenirs from Buffalo’s 1901 Pan-American Exposition. I know that, as collections staff, I am not supposed to have favorites, but here is a secret – I do. My favorite type of Pan-Am souvenir are ruby glass pieces. These pieces are called either ruby flashed or ruby ...
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January 6th marks the one hundredth anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt’s death at the age of sixty, the result of a pulmonary embolism. In the days, weeks, and months following TR’s death, countless tributes and memorials were offered in his honor. Newspapers, as one might expect, began the process and there are several such ...
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Follow this link to watch Laura Cinturati’s presentation on YouTube. For our last Speaker Nite of 2018, we commemorated the upcoming centennial of Armistice Day by featuring Laura Cinturati from Sagamore Hill National Historic Site. Her talk, “Divided Between Pride and Anxiety: The Roosevelt Family and the Great War” explored th...
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Follow this link to watch Joseph McCartin’s presentation on YouTube. Last month, we partnered with Cornell in Buffalo, the Partnership for the Public Good, and the Western New York Area Labor Federation, AFL-CIO to bring Dr. Joseph McCartin to the TR Site for our ongoing Speaker Nite series. Dr. McCartin is a Professor of History at Georget...
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Follow this link to watch Mark Rice’s presentation on YouTube. The TR Site’s August Speaker Nite featured Dr. Mark Rice, a professor in the American Studies Department at St. John Fisher College. His presentation, "Picturing the Philippines in the Early Twentieth Century: Dean C. Worcester in the Pages of National Geographic&rdquo...
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