Jeff Z. Klein (Niagara Frontier Heritage Project)

What Ely Samuel Parker was able to accomplish would have been remarkable for any man. But that Parker, a Tonawanda Seneca, accomplished all he did during a period of outright hatred against Native Americans is nothing short of incredible.

We’re not entirely sure how the Buffalo chicken wing was invented, but there are some good tales, and they tend to revolve around what happened one night in 1964 at the Anchor Bar.

The Blizzard of 1977 took 31 lives in Western New York and the Niagara Peninsula, long the most vicious, relentless and paralyzing storm in the living memory of a place often battered by brutal winter weather.

The 19th century is filled with tales of heroic rescues on the Great Lakes by the fearless lifesaving service, ships’ crews and brave civilians who risked their lives against impossible odds to save others. But among all of them, the extraordinary courage of one woman stands out---Abigail Becker, “the Angel of Long Point”.

When Manny Fried passed away at 97 in 2011, the Buffalo theater community lost a giant. But not just the theater community. Buffalo labor lost a giant too.

What could more perfectly distill life in mid-20th-century Buffalo than bowling? As Oscar Madison exclaimed as he gazed out a window during a visit to the Queen City in a 1974 episode of “The Odd Couple”, “Who would believe that eight bowling alleys on the same block could do much business?”

Western New Yorkers LOVE their football, but how many know that the man dubbed the “Father of Modern Football” came from Springville in southern Erie County?

Why Do People in the Midwest Sound Like Buffalonians? Blame It on the Erie Canal

It’s a long way from the Chautauqua County Village of Frewsburg to the Supreme Court of the United States, and longer still to Nuremberg, Germany, and the trial of the most vicious murderers of the 20th century. But Robert H. Jackson successfully and masterfully made those journeys.

Hard to believe it today, but until 1984, a man could be arrested for asking another man to sleep with him. That intrusive law wrecked the lives of hundreds of men in New York State before it was finally abolished, thanks to the courage of two Buffalonians.