The Welcoming Barbecue is sponsored by the UB Computer Science Department. Chair Stuart Shapiro may attend and also speak on Monday morning if he returns from Italy in time. To go with that, the Barbecue and the Falls Excursion are expressly welcome to families. We still need to have a good idea of numbers by May 29. The Falls Excursion busses will depart at 2pm on Tue.
Goat Island is unspoiled by commercial clutter.
I expect that many people will wish to see the Canadian side. For practical reasons, I could not plan to send a bus across the U.S.-Canadian border. However, I am making it feasible to see both sides by having one of the two busses depart at 9pm or so. In contrast to the dearth of restaurants on the American side, the Canadian side has several good ones. To get there, you can take a 15-min. walk across the Rainbow Bridge or take a cab.