Wonderful to see Blythe Merrill, who did wonderful work with our Landmark Society here in RaChaCha before shuffling off to Buffalo to continue to do great work in Your Fair City. Buffalo, what's to become of My Fair City if you continue to steal our best and brightest--?

But seriously, my Christmas wish here would be that our two fine cities - struggling now, but whose best days are without question ahead - continue to share ideas, best practices, and common purposes and ambitions. And, before long, a legendary joint celebration of a Superbowl win--?

Trico was Buffalo’s largest employer, and the foundation continues his commitment to this community

Kinda wish Trico had continued its commitment to the community after NAFTA.

Ani put it best:

"The TRICO plant moved to mexico left my uncle standing out in the cold said there's your last paycheck have fun growing old"

Can we continue the trend to redevelop endangered Buffalo Buildings? We are encorporating a remaining list and if we cant save the buildings then can we atleast save the facades?

Can we try to add additional centers for excellence?

Can we help Buffalo State expand by helping build small business incubators along Grant & Tonawanda?

Can we get a light rail extension and a new convention center and perhaps another canal attraction by rewatering the Ohio Basin.

Perhaps something impressive with the Presidential Libraries for Fillmore and Cleveland which would have a big national impact of Buffalo being home to two presidential libraries...and once established we could ask for donations from those presidents from the Library of Congress to expand our exhibits.

oh gosh so much and I too wish TRICO could have stayed but as long as OSHEI is continuing its philanthropy in Buffalo it would be nice to keep the TRICO signs above their factories. I just wish that there was a list of efforts we could put forward and see which would have the greatest benefit.

allthingsbuffalo, thank you but I was pretty sure that the committee for the Presidential Librarys was headed by the former MrSeiner at the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society (a really great guy) and the correspondence was definitely to the Library of Congress....perhaps the National Archives is a branch of the Library of Congress.

Im pretty sure that there was some falling out in Buffalo with Cleveland and he donated his papers to a library in another location. However, as we learned when Jackie Kennedy remodelled the white house there are vaults of furniture and documents going all the way back to washington. Therefore, we really wont know what kind of partnership we canhave until we get our own library going, start the donation/endowment process and make requests.

In anycase, Buffalo may be the only city in the nation with two presidential libraries!

PS: lets also not forget that for we have another historical legacy to rebuild for our tourists relating to:

1) building a replica LaSalles Griffon that explored the Great Lakes

2) French and Indian War

3) The revolutionary War

4) The Warof 1812 which burned Buffalo and building a replica naval ship that won the battle of Lake Erie.

5) The Erie Canal and the building of Canal Boats that could tour the harbor, buffalo river, city ship canal and of course erie barge canal and erie canal.

Buffalo has a huge amount of undocumented history....possibly second only to Boston and Philadelphia...but it does little good if its only in books instead of actual sites.

Hey, all you folks who were complaining the other day that there were no photos taken of the new condo tower going up, you can see it to the upper left of the mustachioed dude's head!

chris69, its the national archives not the library of congress that runs presidential libraries but as a rule they dont do any before truman i believe

the new head archivist would like to change that but the people who run the grover cleveland library are libertarians and i doubt they would want the feds touching their library.

my dad works at the archives and he asks me about these two library projects...maybe he'll put in a good word.