Genealogy & Local History in Buffalo, NY
Essays
and Rants Here are recent articles and essays by Cynthia Van Ness. She fully admits that she has 1.5 gazillion opinions and cannot stay away from the keyboard for long. She also knows that unlike some people, you are honest and conscientious and will not plagiarize--as in copy and paste anywhere--these articles without first asking permission, which she is likely to grant. Every essay here is fully protected by copyright.
Local
History, Preservation, and Urban Topics- Preface and excerpts from Victorian Buffalo
- Buffalo Hotels and the Niagara Movement: New Evidence Refutes an Old Legend--many thanks to Western New York Heritage Press for permitting me to reprint this article online
- "Still They Come:" Some Eyewitness Accounts of the Underground Railroad in Buffalo
- Why We Need Municipal Sidewalk Plowing in Buffalo
- If HMOs Ran Our Education
System
- Back
cover blurb for City on the
Edge
- Re-Wrighting
Buffalo: Build
the
Larkin Rowhouses
- Snappy
Answers to Smart Questions
- Buffalo's Bunnywalk
- County
Taxes are a Bargain for Many
- Let's
Restore Bicycling to its Glory Days in Buffalo
- What I Learned
About Women in
Buffalo's Architectural History While Writing Victorian
Buffalo
- Buffalo's
First African-American Architect
- The
Old
Curiosity Shop: McDonnell & Sons Monument Company
- Buffalo's
Other Big Name Architect: H.H. Richardson
- Owners
Want to Know: Who Built The House?--in
which our author is
interviewed by Business First
- Erie
Canal--why saving Buffalo's
Canal District matters
- Ugly
Today, Beautiful Tomorrow: Peace Bridge Commentary
- Buffalo
Builds on History of its Architectural Heritage
- Letter
to Artvoice
about traffic calming in Buffalo
- Rude Question Insults
All Who Live
in City
- Guide
Books Detail 1901 Expo Souvenirs
Library
and Research Topics- The Past Is Not Online
- What is WorldCat and Why Do We Love It? (scroll to
p. 6)
- Is
There a Buffalo in Your Family Tree?
- Shameless Begging: Ten
Low-Budget
Tactics
for Local History Collection
Development
- How
the Internet Will Hurt Future Researchers
- Out
of Town Libraries: Research Tips
- Research
Trips & Skills: A Suggested Checklist
- Technology Threatens
to Divide
Us
Further
- What
Your Sock Drawer Can Teach You About Library Science
- What
Battered Books Can Teach You About Library Science
- Library Can Help with Research of Home History
- Guide
Books Detail 1901 Expo Souvenirs
- "Downtown Library Keeps the Books on Manufacturers," Business First of Buffalo, May 10, 1999: 33. [not online]
Dance
and Music Topics- Best
of Both?
Some of Each? is about the value
of local dance callers
- Contra
Dancing and the Consumer Mentality,
which was reprinted in NEFFA
News, Summer 2000
- Contra
Dance: A Bibliography
- I Was a Groupie with the Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus
Works
Edited by Cynthia- Buffalo Preservation Report, Spring 2004
- Crescendo, Spring 2012 (the newsletter of the Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus)
- Crescendo,
Summer 2012
Special
Glutton for Punishment Section- Late Night in da Buff: Cynthia Van Ness Interview, a podcast recorded on January 23, 2006 at WNYmedia.net
- Forever Young Magazine, March 2008 cover story
- History
of
Presidential Visits to Buffalo--who is
that talking head in the video?
Updated 13 May 2013