Buffalo voices & visions
Subtitle: a literary journey & paean to a Great Lakes city
By: by G. E. Murray.
Publisher: Western New York Wares
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Buffalo, N Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9781879201606
Subjects: Buffalo (N.Y.) -- Poetry.; Buffalo (N.Y.) -- History -- Miscellanea.; Buffalo (N.Y.) -- Anecdotes.; Buffalo (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
Genres: Poetry.; Miscellanea.; Anecdotes.
Other titles: Buffalo voices and visions
Description: "This book engages both historical and contemporary voices, beats and lights, visions, insinuations, innuendoes and peccadilloes - involving certain moments and presences unique to times and spaces in Buffalo." -- Publisher description.
Notes: "A book-length pastiche of poems, narratives, historical notes, quotes, critical observations, and 'factoids' - ultimately, in praise of the City of Buffalo."
Table of contents: title: Spirits over time; title: Homecoming; title: At the Peace Bridge, incoming; title: Weather permitting; title: Theodore Rex dreaming at the Buffalo Club; title: The oxen and the Irish diggers (Big hooray for "Clinton's ditch"); title: Ode to a Pan-American penny; title: The illumination; title: Wings (Frank and Teresa's Anchor Bar, 1964); title: Delaware Park after dark (Engaging the Ghost of Frederick Law Olmsted); title: Mystery of the 7-10 split (24-hour bowling rites); title: Overnight in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery; title: Silos in the sun: grains and losses; title: Barreling: a brief history of plunging over Niagara Falls for fun and profit; title: Sunrise over Chinaman's Lighthouse; title: Steel mill serenade (Blue-collar night-shift blues); title: Hometown heroes; title: 'Buffaloe': legend of the half-breed founder of Buffalo; title: Confessions of Father Baker; title: Spymaster: the secrets services of "Wild Bill" Donovan (Founder of the CIA); title: "Spahn and Sain and pray for rain"; title: Mark Twain at the house his father-in-law bought; title: Millard Fillmore and plumbing at the White House; title: Uncle Jumbo: a short version of the Grover Cleveland story; title: Somewhere over the rainbow, it's stormy Monday (Homage to Harold Arlen); title: Elbert Hubbard's Roycroft experiments; title: Red Jacket and the Marquis de Lafayette lunch at the Eagle Tavern; title: Relentless: the Bills: a love song; title: Niagara frontier nights & secrets; title: "Follow the music gourd:" last stop on the underground railroad; title: Dingus day dancing; title: Invading Canada: O'Neill's crossing; title: Bealsville (A mid-19th century water-bourne village); title: Bobby Militello on horn at the Bon Ton; title: At the Buffalo Philharmonic: whack, bang, the Wiggle-wiggle; title: OJ: if the glove fits: a sonnet; title: Ex-boxing champ Jimmy Slattery living above the house O'Quinn Tavern; title: Joy in Mudville; title: Poets in spaghettiland; title: Outtakes & inspirations; title: The song of the plowman; title: Roaming the interiors of Charles Burchfield paintings; title: (Burchfield, Buffalo's finest landscape painter); title: "Transition - fall to winter; title: "Edge of town"; title: "Sulphurous evening"; title: "After the ice storm"; title: "Rainy night"; title: "Ice-bound lake boats"; title: "Freight cars under a bridge"; title: "Black iron"; title: "Old houses in winter"; title: A city indiginous; title: The Blizzard of '77: a treatise; title: The Blizzard of '85: retreats and reflections; title: Waltz with a hockey stick (In Praise of the Buffalo Sabres); title: The seaman in the painting (The unknown Mr. Lars Gustaf Selstedt arrives in Buffalo, 1842); title: Buffalo summer airs; title: 1936; title: 1959; title: 1991; title: Buffalo autumn twilights; title: 1947; title: 1963; title: 1985; title: Last of the scoopers calls it quits; title: Exiles & exits; title: Escape to Canada (A Viet Nam War-Era letter); title: Solitary midnight figure at the Amherst Street Metro Station; title: Self-portrait, South Buffalo; title: Self-portrait, North Buffalo; title: 21 years on the Erie Canal; title: The last mayor of Buffalo (In dialog with first Mayor Ebenezer Johnson); title: The last exile (Interview with transplanted Buffalonian playing afternoon piano at the Polo Lounge in Beverly Hills); title: Lost souls; title: Buffalo culinology.