Not a bad seat in the house for the War of 1812 show

While I applaud the Buffalo Philharmonic and every opportunity for Buffalonians to gather together and get to know each other as a city beyond their local (suburb, eastside, westside, etc).

What does Delaware Park have to do with the War of 1812?

Gosh, even LaSalle Park or Front Park would have had more meaning. Squaw Island would have atleast been near the pre-civil war naval yards. Canalside would have had a relation but DELAWARE PARK has no meaning or relation at all.

Its stuff like this that takes people who have a serious interest in the stewardship of Buffalo's culture and history for the betterment of our quality of life and the respect of our city locally, regionally and nationally.

Buffalo is not a 1-note town built in the last 50 years that made its name in blizzards and football. Buffalo opened the door to the exploration of the interior of our midwest and western region by LaSalle exploring the Great Lakes long before Louis&Clark, Buffalo defended that frontier in the French&Indian War, the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.

Buffalo settled and prospered the midwest and west. The Erie Canal was the only alternative to the Mississippi River in exchanging goods from our nations interior to the rest of the world. The result was a richness of trade, industry, commerce, transportation that put Buffalo alongside other great cities of the nation.

For all this...we get anonymous demolitions and fireworks in an unrelated park.

Shame on you Buffalo. Are there any real leaders of our cities cultural legacies. One would hope that at the very least our cities museums would have a joint committee to jointly promote and coordinate.

Instead the culturals follow the same line as Buffalo industry and Buffalo State and others...insulating themselves...cutting themselves off from leadership and stewardship and acting in their own self interest only. Shame on Buffalo.

Saw the fireworks from my front porch! Was a pretty good show!

paulsobo = duh

Paulsobo....like others have said, perhaps did you know of the 300 soldiers buried at the boulder in the green at Delaware Park? Not pertinent enough for you? Did you know of the 200 British and American soldiers on Aero Drive in Cheektowaga?

The entire Niagara Frontier during the 1813 period of the War was one of the most bloodiest campaigns of the War of 1812. Referring to (Pre-Civil War shipyards), yes Black Rock was a najor shipyard for construction of lake ferrying warships, so was Navy Island ( A Canadian Island in the Niagara River)...

Ahh yes, a string of speeches...

So basically you would find it acceptable to commemorate the War of 1812 anywhere in the Niagara Region because the whole region was a bloody campaign.

If so then the miss the point completely.

We are a city, a localle, a region with a collective memory, a collective history, a collective culture...with depth and richness the envy of other cities. We have gold and riches accummulated from blood, sweat, sacrifice and yes joy for our community.

Yet we let the world and the nation see us through blizzards and football...when we could be using opportunities like these to show others we are a multi-threaded tapestry of history, culture, commerce, technology like Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, Baltimore, DC, Atlanta.

Tomorrow the speeches will be forgotten...and the War of 1812 will return to anonymity...and another legacy of our city will be silently returned to oblivion...until cause for it to be dusted off.

There is shame in this...just as there is shame in the Albright Knox selling off its classical / period antiques for modern art. Same thing. A-K wants to eliminate its old collection so it can be a new museum to compete with new sunbelt museums. We keep demolishing buildings so we can built new. However, Buffalo is not a nuveau riche city of the 21st century. Buffalo is a city straddling the 18th century thru the 21st century. We are a Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia. We honor them by incorporating our past into our future.

Oh yes Paul Buffalo...our own Simon Weisenthal stalker. No wonder you cant find them...your always looking in the wrong place and making the wrong conclusion.

Get out of your same religion ghetto where everyone is a liberal socialist within the USA and a genocidal war mongerer in the middle east....then you might open your mind and find a museum.