Pandemic cleaning= me finding old photographs and finally scanning them.
This batch was taken at the Winchester, VA Visitor Center back in 1996. At the time it was the closest to a Patsy Cline museum that Winchester had. Of course, while I was there I had to pay respects to her final resting place (and no, I was not the person who moved the flower arrangement).
The year was 1982. The Baby Boomers were growing up which left the post-WW2 suburb of Tonawanda, NY with more schools then students. The smaller K-2 schools built quickly for the boomer kids had already started to close (I was supposed to attend Horace Mann school but it closed the spring before I started- it … Read more
Saint Joseph’s New Cathedral History (via preservationready.org and Kay Nou = Our House) In the early years of the 20th century, Roman Catholic Bishop Charles Henry Colton began plans to construct an even grander cathedral several miles north of the existing church, along Buffalo’s Delaware Avenue, where the well-heeled lived. The new structure would be build for $500,000 … Read more
I am so sorry that I have been quiet the past few months- my father had knee replacement surgery and between him and the kids, life has gotten busy busy busy. I finally have a chance to breathe (and find my living room floor!) so I’m slowly going through old slides. Today’s quick blog post … Read more
