Research Catalog

Title

Buffalo unbound : a celebration / Laura Pedersen.

Author

Pedersen, Laura.

Publication

Golden, Colo. : Fulcrum Pub., c2010.

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Description

xviii, 195 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Writing about the economic collapse and social unrest of her 1970s childhood in Buffalo, New York, Laura Pedersen was struck by how things were finally improving in her beloved hometown. As 2008 began, Buffalo was poised to become the thriving metropolis it had been a hundred years earlier—only instead of grain and steel, the booming industries now included health care and banking, education and technology. Folks who'd moved away due to lack of opportunity in the 1980s talked excitedly about returning home. They missed the small-town friendliness, and it wasn't nostalgia for a past that no longer existed—Buffalo has long held the well-deserved nickname the City of Good Neighbors. The diaspora has ended. Preservationists are winning out over demolition crews. The lights are back on in a city that's usually associated with blizzards and blight rather than its treasure trove of art, architecture, and culture. Buffalo Unbound is a humorous and heartfelt look at the rise, fall, and rebirth of the great Rust Belt city.

Subject

• Buffalo (N.Y.) > History
• Buffalo (N.Y.) > Social life and customs
• Buffalo (N.Y.) > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Black is the new black -- I've got the world on a string theory -- The United States of Iroquois -- Buffalo burning -- Mo' better bagels -- Leave it to the beavers -- Angola horror -- Forest to Forest Lawn -- Father baker's dozen -- Form follows freedom -- Cleveland Hill fire -- Bada bing boom, black Cadillac -- A tale of two eddies -- School days? -- a few flakes short of a snowball -- How I was exposed -- Arborgeddon -- Ridin' on the thruway -- Loss of critical mass : when the saints go marching out -- Increase the peace -- Life in Amherst -- The best-kept secret -- Let's go, Buffalo! -- Connecting the drops -- To be perfectly Frank -- Good bones -- Living here in Allentown -- Buffalo past and prologue -- City of great neighbors (and cat people).

ISBN

• 9781555917357 (pbk.)
• 1555917356 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2010014920

OCLC

• 601127474
• SCSB-12407800

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library