Lindsey Lauren

President William McKinley & Tariffs

I did not set out to be a McKinley historian, however, as the City of Buffalo Municipal Historian, President William McKinley was unavoidable. His life and my city are inextricably linked as he was assassinated in Buffalo in 1901. That said, for most of my career, McKinley was not a president who often popped upContinue reading “President William McKinley & Tariffs”

The Making and Meaning of the Collectanea satis copiosa

While nearly all of my recent research has focused on WNY history, in honor of His Majesty King Charles III’s upcoming coronation, I thought I’d share my contribution to British history.

Annie Edson Taylor- Queen of the Mist Part II

A quick rap on the top let Annie know she had been cut loose. Her fate was fully in the hands of the mighty Niagara.

Annie Edson Taylor- Queen of the Mist Part I

Going! Going! Go-not gone, but going. Mrs. Annie Edson Taylor has been going, is going, and could, should, must, or will be going over the Horseshoe Falls in a barrel- maybe?

Tragic September Part III: Assassin

For two days Czolgosz waited, the gun constantly at his fingertips, just waiting for an opportunity.

Tragic September Part II: Inauguration

As the President of the United States lay dying in Buffalo, the Vice President was quite literally, throwing himself down the side of a mountain.

Tragic September Part I: Assassination

The eyes of the world were on Buffalo as it hosted the Pan-American Exposition in the summer of 1901.

Is this even a race? The NYC to Paris 1908 Car Race

Part II The welcome the teams received from Russian Government officials made the half-hearted welcome most of the teams received in America look downright passionate. They met with the drivers in their full gold, lace-covered government regalia and offered some no nonsense advice. “Give up.” Put the cars on the Trans-Siberian railway and resume theirContinue reading “Is this even a race? The NYC to Paris 1908 Car Race”

Is this even a race? The NYC to Paris 1908 Car Race

Part I Walking through Springville, New York’s Maplewood Cemetery, you’ll come across a small headstone marked George N. Schuster. Engraved upon its upper half is an early open-top automobile…three men are riding inside, and from its trunk is mounted an American flag waving in the wind. The stone reads, “Driver of the Thomas Flyer andContinue reading “Is this even a race? The NYC to Paris 1908 Car Race”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter….tomorrow we will run faster….stretch out our arms farther…. And one fiiiine morning…. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back…ceaselessly into the past.” This, the closing line of TheContinue reading “F. Scott Fitzgerald”