An Insider’s View of the TR Site
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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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Connor Marsherall is a senior at Daemen College, majoring in History & Political Science. He interned at the TR Site during the summer of 2018. During my internship here at the TR Site, I made a discovery that led me through a musical struggle and eventually an end result. To preface, I’m not a musical expert, I can’t read ...
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Follow this link to watch Shana Kushner Gadarian’s presentation on YouTube. The TR Site’s ongoing Speaker Nite series recently featured Dr. Shana Kushner Gadarian, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Her presentation, “Anxious ...
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Follow this link to watch Jamila Michener’s presentation on YouTube. This past month, we partnered with Cornell in Buffalo to bring Dr. Jamila Michener to the TR Site for our ongoing Speaker Nite series. Dr. Michener is an Assistant professor in the department of Government at Cornell University and author of Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid,...
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Follow this link to watch Tonya Myles-Day’s presentation on YouTube. The TR Site’s ongoing Speaker Nite series recently featured Professor Tonya Myles-Day LMSW, Adjunct Professor of Social Work at Buffalo State College. Her presentation, “A Century of Social Work: The Power of Jane Addams”, combined her professi...
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Follow this link to watch Judi Geer’s presentation on YouTube. Last month, the TR Site had the pleasure of welcoming retired librarian and professor Judi Geer to its ongoing Speaker Nite series. Her talk, “Theodore Roosevelt: America’s Greenest President,” was based on the book The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and...
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The Wilcox house at 641 Delaware Avenue is sitting empty. The community is concerned about its fate. But this isn’t the early 1960’s . . . it’s 1936. Mary Grace Wilcox had died in 1933 and the contents of the house had been auctioned off the previous year. In an odd preview of the drive that would, three decades later, successfull...
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Follow this link to watch Dr. Parshall’s Presentation on YouTube The TR Site’s March Speaker Nite featured Dr. Lisa K. Parshall, Associate Professor of History and Political Science at Daemen College. Her presentation, Standing at Armageddon: Roosevelt, Wilson, and the Battle for Democracy in the Presidential Nominating Process, expl...
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