An edition of Buffalo voices & visions
(2008)
Buffalo voices & visions
a literary journey & paean to a Great Lakes city
by G. E. Murray
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"This book 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." -- Publisher description.
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Anecdotes, History, Miscellanea, Poetry, Social life and customs, Manners and customsPlaces
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Buffalo voices & visions: a literary journey & paean to a Great Lakes city
2008, Western New York Wares
in English
1879201607 9781879201606
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Table of Contents
Spirits over time
Homecoming
At the Peace Bridge, incoming
Weather permitting
Theodore Rex dreaming at the Buffalo Club
The oxen and the Irish diggers (Big hooray for "Clinton's ditch")
Ode to a Pan-American penny
The illumination
Wings (Frank and Teresa's Anchor Bar, 1964)
Delaware Park after dark (Engaging the Ghost of Frederick Law Olmsted)
Mystery of the 7-10 split (24-hour bowling rites)
Overnight in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Silos in the sun: grains and losses
Barreling: a brief history of plunging over Niagara Falls for fun and profit
Sunrise over Chinaman's Lighthouse
Steel mill serenade (Blue-collar night-shift blues)
Hometown heroes
'Buffaloe': legend of the half-breed founder of Buffalo
Confessions of Father Baker
Spymaster: the secrets services of "Wild Bill" Donovan (Founder of the CIA)
"Spahn and Sain and pray for rain"
Mark Twain at the house his father-in-law bought
Millard Fillmore and plumbing at the White House
Uncle Jumbo: a short version of the Grover Cleveland story
Somewhere over the rainbow, it's stormy Monday (Homage to Harold Arlen)
Elbert Hubbard's Roycroft experiments
Red Jacket and the Marquis de Lafayette lunch at the Eagle Tavern
Relentless: the Bills: a love song
Niagara frontier nights & secrets
"Follow the music gourd:" last stop on the underground railroad
Dingus day dancing
Invading Canada: O'Neill's crossing
Bealsville (A mid-19th century water-bourne village)
Bobby Militello on horn at the Bon Ton
At the Buffalo Philharmonic: whack, bang, the Wiggle-wiggle
OJ: if the glove fits: a sonnet
Ex-boxing champ Jimmy Slattery living above the house O'Quinn Tavern
Joy in Mudville
Poets in spaghettiland
Outtakes & inspirations
The song of the plowman
Roaming the interiors of Charles Burchfield paintings
(Burchfield, Buffalo's finest landscape painter)
"Transition - fall to winter
"Edge of town"
"Sulphurous evening"
"After the ice storm"
"Rainy night"
"Ice-bound lake boats"
"Freight cars under a bridge"
"Black iron"
"Old houses in winter"
A city indiginous
The Blizzard of '77: a treatise
The Blizzard of '85: retreats and reflections
Waltz with a hockey stick (In Praise of the Buffalo Sabres)
The seaman in the painting (The unknown Mr. Lars Gustaf Selstedt arrives in Buffalo, 1842)
Buffalo summer airs
1936
1959
1991
Buffalo autumn twilights
1947
1963
1985
Last of the scoopers calls it quits
Exiles & exits
Escape to Canada (A Viet Nam War-Era letter)
Solitary midnight figure at the Amherst Street Metro Station
Self-portrait, South Buffalo
Self-portrait, North Buffalo
21 years on the Erie Canal
The last mayor of Buffalo (In dialog with first Mayor Ebenezer Johnson)
The last exile (Interview with transplanted Buffalonian playing afternoon piano at the Polo Lounge in Beverly Hills)
Lost souls
Buffalo culinology.
Edition Notes
"A book-length pastiche of poems, narratives, historical notes, quotes, critical observations, and 'factoids' - ultimately, in praise of the City of Buffalo."
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