#tbt The last ever Flag Day at Philip Sheridan Elementary School

Philip Sheridan Elementary School, Tonawanda NY, final flag day 1982

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

#tbt Artpark in the late 70s/ early 80s.

Niagara '79

Artpark had a long history prior to becoming the first state park devoted to the arts. The First Nations people originally lived in this area and a burial mound dating over 2000 years old is located on the grounds of Artpark. Explorers Father Louis Hennepin, O.F.M.  and René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, landed on the site … Read more

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