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Research your Buffalo, NY USA ancestors & architecture at BuffaloResearch.com. Buffalo's oldest surviving website, founded 1993, run by a retired librarian. Plus local resistance stuff.

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BuffaloResearch.com @buffaloresearch.com · Sep 11
The Buffalonians starter pack is now at over 100 names, mostly people who are not focused solely on sports. Want to be added? Drop a howdy in the replies!
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Anyone who has to go to immigration court can request a virtual hearing and avoid being abducted when showing up in person. Here's a screengrab of the Buffalo section & the original DOJ source.
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January 29, 2026 at 2:23 AM
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Great question for librarians to consider:
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kklevine.bsky.social Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 8h
What's a polite and firm way to tell somebody that I can't really answer their question if they are using an LLM to ask me?
January 29, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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Was just tipped off to the existence of the Buffalo Community Calendar for meetings, workshops, protests, rallies. There's a link to submit your events.
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www.buffalocommunitycalendar.org
Buffalo Community Calendar
Buffalo Community Calendar
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January 29, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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Let me just point out that these cutout quilts predate Henri Matisse's famed cutout collages, which are similar, by 40+ years.
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deborahrosereeves.bsky.social Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 14h
The new Harriet Powers USPS postage stamps are so moving. Featuring details from formerly enslaved Powers’s “Pictorial Quilt” of 1898, I’m so glad these stamps will bring her work & life story to more people, especially when so much Black history is being erased from the public realm right now 💌
USPS postage stamp. A detail of one if the story blocks in Harriet Power’s Pictorial quilt. Against a navy cotton background, this block features two abstract human figures appliquéd in cream colored cotton with arms raised, an abstract donkey figure in brown patterned fabric, and two ducks in pale cotton. There are also appliqué flowers and an appliqué sun using circular and triangular pieces of pale fabric. The bottom of the Forever Stamp bears the name HARRIET POWERS in all caps. From the USPS website: Four new stamps honor quiltmaker Harriet Powers (1837–1910), a formerly enslaved woman who stitched works that are celebrated as masterpieces of American folk art and storytelling. Just two of her quilts are known to survive. Born October 29, 1837, on a plantation near Athens, Georgia, the future quilter is believed to have learned to sew as a child. At 18, she married Armstead Powers, an enslaved farmhand. Eventually they would have nine children. After Emancipation, they bought four acres nearby in Sandy Creek, Georgia, where they raised cotton and vegetables. Along the way, Harriet Powers began creating quilts, and completed at least five. The two we know are referred to as story quilts because each of their panels features a pieced, appliquéd, and embroidered scene from a familiar story drawn from local lore or the Bible. USPS postage stamp depicting a story blocks from Harriet Powers quilt. On a light brown fabric background, animal figures are secured using the hand stitched appliqué technique. The figures are abstract but appear to depict rabbits, deer, and coyote or perhaps foxes in a variety of natural colors and fabric patterns, from plain cream cotton to brown and white polkadot patterned fabric. The bottom of the Forever Stamp bears the name HARRIET POWERS in all caps. USPS postage stamp depicting a story block from Harriet Powers 1898 quilt. Against a beige cotton background, abstract human and animal appliqué figures, with a rudimentary sun and moon figure in scraps of fabric. USPS postage stamp depicting a story block from Harriet Powers 1898 quilt. Against a navy cloth background, abstract appliqué human figures that appear to be dancing (arms are raised and there’s a sense of movement in how the figures are arranged/placed on the fabric. Above the figures appear to be abstract shooting star symbols in an orangey brown fabric. The bottom of the Forever Stamp bears the name HARRIET POWERS in all caps.
January 28, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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Upcoming training in Buffalo. Know your rights. January 30, 6-7:30 PM.
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Resistance Is a Living Practice: Know Your Rights Training Marks the Lead-Up to a Black History Month ICE Resistance Toolkit - Buffalo Rising
This week, Mayor Sean M. Ryan issued his first executive order, formally prohibiting the use of City of Buffalo personnel or resources for federal civil immigration enforcement. Also this week, Colore...
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January 28, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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Illustrated article about the US Army Corps of Engineers' activities in Buffalo during the Blizzard in 1977.
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Operation Snow Go : Small, Bob : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Article about the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) response and activities during the Blizzard of 1977 in Buffalo, N.Y.  The USACE also published a...
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January 28, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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Take a look at pages from the archives to see how The Buffalo Evening News covered the Blizzard of '77 as it happened.
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The Blizzard of '77 in the pages of the Buffalo Evening News
See the pages from the archives of the Buffalo Evening News in the days following the epic
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January 28, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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There are many research hosting services out there. Lots of them want to host your work in order to mine it for profit. Knowledge Commons wants to build a coalition of researchers, teachers, students, and more, in order to resist the authoritarian effort to undermine public access to knowledge.
Knowledge Commons – Open access, open source, open to all
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January 28, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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"Non-violent tactics that waste a company’s time or money are really effective. For Enterprise, we’ve made and cancelled car reservations, saying the roads are too icy. At Home Depot... people [lined] up to buy ice scrapers and then getting in line to return them, in a way that clogs the lines."
olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d
"We had one hotel publicly refuse to house ICE, which became a big national news story when DHS went after them. That’s a hotel we were targeting, and it was mostly because of our pressure. We had two more hotels temporarily shut down to avoid housing ICE..."

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How to Block ICE In Your City
Minneapolis organizer Aru Shiney-Ajay on effective tactics to disrupt ICE—and the need to target corporate collaborators
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January 27, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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Another important event at the Central Library, a documentary about Buffalo journalist A.J. Smitherman, Feb. 21, 1:30 pm, by local filmmaker Tala Hardin.
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And A Shot Rang Out: A.J. Smitherman & Buffalo's Connection to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
Join us for a screening of "And a Shot Rang Out," a documentary that explores the historical context of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Dr. Barbara Seals-Nevergold, an educator,...
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January 27, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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Coming up next month at the Central Library on Lafayette Square! I already put it on my calendar, Feb. 19, 6:30 PM.
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City of Distant Neighbors: Histories of Segregation in Buffalo with James Coughlin
Presented by James J. Coughlin of Burning Books. No registration required—free and open to the public! This engaging and accessible history explores Buffalo’s racial...
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January 27, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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On this day 49 years ago, the Blizzard of 1977 began. I was in high school in Rochester and we got a lot of snow, too
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Blizzard of 1977 - Wikipedia
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January 27, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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I have long wished for passenger service to be restored on the Belt Line.
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railmag.bsky.social RAIL Magazine @railmag.bsky.social · 2d
This is a view of the Belt Line corridor in Buffalo, N.Y., former New York Central. Now owned by CSX with trackage rights for CN & CPKC, along with rare Amtrak diversions. Key to notice is the full grade separation + right side of the ROW, which once included 2 additional tracks
January 27, 2026 at 3:28 AM
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ICE out of WNY press conference, tomorrow 1/27, 250 Delaware Ave, corner of Chippewa, noon.
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January 26, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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Buffalo's first television broadcast station, WBEN (now WIVB) went on the air in 1948.

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January 26, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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A. This is cool and
B. Are they writing MARC records for banners? Please tell me they're cataloging banners!
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libraryephemera.bsky.social S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 2d
Chicago Public Library is doing some amazing work.
Banner that reads Protest Banner Lending Library. Flyer from Chicago Public Library that gives instructions on how to check out a protest banner.
January 26, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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Buffalonians of a certain age will recognize Schenck as one of the leaders of Operation Rescue in #Buffalo in 1992.
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boyonabike62.bsky.social John Lloyd @boyonabike62.bsky.social · 2d
Powerful
motherjones.com Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 3d
He spent decades bringing the religious right to power. Now he's marching to undo it.

Rev. Rob Schenck spent decades helping build the Religious Right—commingling church and state to advance conservative causes. Now, he says he must confront the damage he helped cause.
January 26, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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Mice, rats, cockroaches and other pests. Mold on walls and in bathrooms. Broken windows and plaster falling down. Garbage lying around. Appliances not working. No electricity. Tenants in the city's public subsidized housing say conditions are deplorable.
Tenants say conditions are awful in Buffalo's public subsidized housing
Mice, rats, cockroaches and other pests. Mold on walls and in bathrooms. Broken windows and plaster falling down. Garbage lying around. Appliances not working. No electricity. Tenants in the city's public subsidized housing say conditions are deplorable.
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January 26, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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Through a partnership with Ancestry, eight million names from historical concentration camp lists have been fully digitized. The records are available now free of charge on Ancestry and will be integrated into the Arolsen Archives online archive by 2027. More: arolsen-archives.org/en/news/inte...
International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Milestone for the Online Archive | Arolsen Archives
To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, the Arolsen Archives are taking significant steps to make their holdings more accessible online. Through a partnership with Ancestry, the...
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January 26, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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Mayor Sean Ryan is expected to sign an executive order this morning barring city employees from assisting in federal civil immigration actions. I have the details here: buffalonews.com/news/local/g...
Ryan order will bar Buffalo city employees from assisting with civil immigration enforcement
While city employees already do not assist with civil immigration, Mayor Sean Ryan said his executive order will lay out clear expectations that city employees may not assist federal agents with civil...
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January 26, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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“Everybody has one now!” writes Ethel Pincus of the Buffalo Times, noting that silver flasks are the most fashionable. “Jewelers can't supply enough of the four-ouncers. No more does the handsome raccooned sheik pass the quart bottles to his fair Sheba when they go dancing. 2/3
January 26, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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The icebreaker William H. Latham works in the upper Niagara River in Niagara Falls near the power authority’s water intakes in today's #EveryDayAPhoto by Joed Viera.

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January 26, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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The #Buffalo book of the week is Michael Lewyn's tours of Buffalo neighborhoods in the 1990s. Now a time capsule of Buffalo before so much transformational change.

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Car-Free in Buffalo: A Guide to Buffalo's Neighborhoods, Suburbs and Public Transportation
A Guide to Buffalo's Neighborhoods, Suburbs and Public Transportation
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January 26, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 3d
During the Great Depression, the WPA hired 274 librarians, mostly local women, to carry books from local libraries to rural Appalachian residents, riding 100-120 miles a week, across rugged terrain.

They also prepared special collection scrapbooks with recipes, canning techniques, how-to guides.
These Women Rode Miles on Horseback Just to Deliver Library Books
Librarians are amazing.
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January 26, 2026 at 2:43 AM
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The sun sets behind the 1833 Buffalo light house at the mouth of the Buffalo River in today's #EveryDayAPhoto by Harry Scull Jr.

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January 25, 2026 at 6:03 PM