Rain date is July 5. The ride will begin at 10 a.m. in the parking lot of Craw-daddy's at the Erie Basin Marina.
Parking is free.
The tour, led by docent Mac McCaffery, will continue along the waterfront through the Cobblestone District, past Buffalo's oldest working blacksmith shop and traversing the Old First Ward, where original workman cottages are dwarfed by grain elevators on the Buffalo River. Riders will swing up Ganson Street, first in the nation to be lit by electricity, and take a look at the only box elevator still standing in the country. Doubling back toward downtown, the ride will come upon Buffalo's firefighting tugboat, the Edward M. Cotter, at the Michigan Street Bridge. Last leg of the tour will head for the rocky hook of land that swings out into Buffalo Harbor, past Crawdaddy's, stopping at land's end, where riders can lunch. In 1995 he received the school's Administrative Excellence Award, presented to one administrator annually by a consensus of a diverse ad hoc committee of faculty and staff.