Spotlight on: fond memories of Western New York

Remembering is fun, especially when we recall all the fun we had in the "good old days." Remembering Old Buffalo focuses on all the magic those times held: Crystal Beach, the Canadiana, Sunday rides in the country and the holidays that created delightful memories.

This book also showcases fun foods and beverages, and the funny people who made our lives so special. Then there's yesterday's entertainment: records, radio, movies, stage shows, the early days of TV -- even the Palace Burlesk. It's a one-of-a-kind romp through a simpler and more carefree time.

Buffalo Voices & Visions: A Literary Journey & Paean to a Great Lakes City is a book-length pastiche of poems, narratives, historical notes, quotes, critical observations, and "factoids" -- ultimately, in praise of the City of Buffalo and its environs. G.E. Murray engages both historical and contemporary voices, beats and lights, visions, insinuations, innuendoes and peccadilloes -- involving certain moments and presences unique to times and spaces in Buffalo.

Sections include: "Barreling: A Brief History of Plunging Over Niagara Falls For Fun and Profit," "Overnight in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery," and "Mark Twain at the House His Father-in-law Bought."

Billy Shaw. Joe Ferguson. Fred Smerlas. Before the days of multi-million dollar contracts for unproven players, there were men like these. Men who built one of America's most storied football franchises without expecting lucrative endorsement deals or $80 autograph fees.

In The Bills Are Due, Rob Thompson pays tribute to the generations of players who made the Buffalo Bills -- and, by extension, Western New York -- what it is today. Thompson's personal reminiscences of his own youth brilliantly capture the historical milieu of the team's "golden era" -- and remind readers why they first fell for our beloved Bills.

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