2024-11-07

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#tbt The last ever Flag Day at Philip Sheridan Elementary School Philip Sheridan Elementary School, Tonawanda NY, final flag day 1982
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#tbt The last ever Flag Day at Philip Sheridan Elementary School

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 […]

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#tbt Artpark in the late 70s/ early 80s. (back of postcard) ARTPARK, Lewiston NY. An exciting two-hundred acre visual and performing arts center, located six miles from Niagara Falls and operated under the jurisdiction of the New York State Office of Parks and Recreation.
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#tbt Artpark in the late 70s/ early 80s.

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 […]

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