Buffalo’s Garden Walk is the largest garden tour in the nation, and the only one of its magnitude that can actually be walked. More than 400 Buffalo gardeners open their gardens to the public during the last weekend of July each year as part of one of Western New York's most anticipated summer events.The GardenWalk Buffalo book includes interviews with 27 gardeners, as well as photos of more than 80 additional gardens. There is a photo section for the gardens of Frederick Law Olmsted's Delaware Park, a spread on community gardens, a list of selected plants grown in Western New York (Zone 5), a history of Garden Walk Buffalo and its impact on local urban gardens and how it helps rejuvenate city streets, and even a brief bit on how to start your own garden walk.

Garden Walk Buffalo

Arts & Photography

Licata, Elizabeth

Photography & Video

City of Light Publishing

Just one block long, Oakland Place is one of the Buffalo's grandest avenues. Having never been a through street, it remained insulated from the radical changes that transformed the city during the 20th century. This helped the traditions of good and gracious living by the city's leading citizens to last longer here than in most other areas of the city. It also led to the development of a close-knit community of decision-makers who greatly influenced many aspects of Buffalo for decades. The introduction summarizes the development of the street and how it changed over time, and describes how the residents lived. This is followed by a house-by-house photographic essay featuring the contemporary exterior and some interior features of each home, as well as an historical photograph for context, accompanied by the architectural and social history of each gracious home.

Oakland Place: Gracious Living in Buffalo

Wachadlo, Martin

Architecture

In 1900, Buffalo was the eighth largest city in the U.S. As the world ushered in the new century, Buffalo celebrated its status as a vibrant center for transportation, commerce, and industry and became home for thousands of immigrants who chose to begin their new lives in this promising City by the Lake. Postcards erupted on the scene around 1907, a short-lived product of the collision of emerging print technologies and existing postal regulations. This lovely book offers a fascinating and historically accurate glimpse of Buffalo's Main Street at the turn of the last century through postcard scenes. These views of downtown reveal Buffalo as one of the most progressive and vibrant cities of the time. How fitting that postcards, made popular during Buffalo's heyday, should pave the way through the city's illustrious past. Perhaps they also provide valuable clues for directions in which Buffalo's beautiful downtown could and should develop a century hence, rising from the ashes to emerge once again as a vital, vibrant hub for the entire region.

Postcard Views:: A Walk Down Main Street Buffalo, New York, Circa 1910

History

McCarthy, Paul

Bieron, Joseph

Americas

This beautiful book celebrates the life of Sister Karen Klimczak, SSJ, and helps us cherish the memory of this passionate champion of nonviolence, who dedicated her life to providing sanctuary and hope to ex-offenders. The biographies, stories, essays, interviews, poetry, art, and photographs that grace this book are voices of the community expressing how Buffalo's Ambassador of Peace touched their lives. Vignettes are interspersed with entries from Sister Karen’s own journals and observations that express hope and forgiveness. The Emmy-nominated DVD, Apostle of Peace, produced by Daybreak TV Productions, is enclosed in each book. This moving half-hour tribute to Sister Karen that aired a year after her death, includes interviews with some of the people closest to her, along with archival footage of Sister Karen herself.

PEACEPRINTS:: Sister Karen’s Paths to Nonviolence

Biographies & Memoirs

Brady, Evelyn McLean

Community & Culture

More than 200 beautiful color photos showcase the breadth and diversity of Buffalo's embarrassment of riches from the vast expanse of parks and gardens, architectural treasures, and the arts and cultural scene, to its proud past and positively brilliant future. It's a visual celebration of the waterfront, colleges, fairs and festivals, and the amazing spirit of our neighborhoods.The Fine Art of Capturing Buffalo is the perfect gift for family, friends, clients, co-workers, and potential employees.

The Fine Art of Capturing Buffalo

Donnelly, Mark

When World War II ended in September 1945, Buffalo was the eighth largest city in the United States. Its economy was booming, its population growing, its downtown bustled with commercial activity in the daytime, and lit up with excitement at night. In this setting, sports entered a golden age. Spectators flocked to Memorial Auditorium, Civic Stadium and Offermann Stadium in spectacular numbers to watch their teams perform successfully and their favorite athletes achieve stardom. Baseball, basketball, football and hockey, as well as boxing and wrestling, all enjoyed remarkable success. Then came television, the growth of suburbs, and the mushrooming of the Sunbelt. With those developments, the Golden Age diminished almost as quickly as it had exploded. But during those years that comprised the Golden Age, 1945-1950, unprecedented numbers of Buffalonians cheered on George Ratterman, Bob MacKinnon, Leroy Chollet, Zeke Sinicola, Freddie Hunt, and Joe and Phil Muscato. Gorgeous George, Yukon Eric, Howie Willis, and Tom and Phil Colella (no relation) also attracted thousands of fans. They are all here and many more in a thoroughly documented history of postwar sports in Buffalo, New York. An abundant dose of nostalgia flavors the work. This volume should merit the attention of all who have an interest in or an affinity for the history of the Queen City of the Great Lakes. It should also appeal to all those who wonder about the role of sports in their own native city in this pre-television age. DR. DANIEL P. STARR is professor emeritus of history at Canisius College. He was a member of the faculty there for almost a half of century and he served as the Director of Athletics for nearly three decades. In part he drew on his experiences as a professor of American history and as an athletic administrator, as well as his knowledge of his hometown to produce this volume.

Golden Age of Buffalo Sports

Starr, Dan

It's a whimsical look at the weather we all weather together. Utilizing little more than his camera, his typewriter, and historical data from the National Weather Service, Dr. Mark Donnelly sets out to debunk the myths and exaggerations about Buffalo's winter, and showcase its overwhelming beauty.

Frozen Assets: The Beautiful Truth about Western New York's Fourth Season

Rick Azar. For many, this name evokes a wave of wistful nostalgia. A member of the charismatic trio “Irv, Rick and Tom” on WKBW-TV that dominated the Western New York and Southern Ontario airwaves for nearly two decades, Rick Azar tells engaging stories about so many historical beginnings. His tales chronicle the birth of broadcasting, the contentious start of the Sabres and the beginning of the Buffalo Bills. Azar shares fascinating behind-the-scenes encounters with some of the colorful celebrities he interviewed – and, more often than not, befriended – over the decades. Meet Howard Cosell, Jack Kemp, Joe Namath, Ted Williams, Gil Perreault, Wayne Gretzky, Floyd Patterson, Ilio DiPaolo, Jack Nicklaus, Dizzy Gillespie, and so many more. Azar’s journey from Brooklyn to Buffalo, on the stage and on the air, covering sports and offering commentary, is entertaining and insightful. It also reveals much about Buffalo, his beloved hometown.

Tales From Azar’s Attic:: A Look Inside a Broadcasting Career

Azar, Rick

Humor & Entertainment

Audieu: Buffalo Says Goodbye to the Aud

Taylor, Suzanne K.

The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra came into existence at the height of the Great Depression. Seventy-five years later, it is an internationally renowned, Grammy-winning Orchestra. The story of this amazing trajectory is told through more than 200 images in a beautiful 120-page coffee table book that celebrates music in Buffalo. Follow the BPO from Lajos Shuk to JoAnne Falleta, and meet many of the world’s greatest musicians. Leonard Bernstein to Lang Lang, Johnny Mathis to the Grateful Dead, the BPO has brought the world of music to Buffalo. On tour, it has brought Buffalo to the world. Special sections showcase the BPO’s home, the acoustically perfect Kleinhans Music Hall, the BPO’s many Carnegie Hall appearances and the hundreds of recordings made over the decades.

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra:: The BPO Celebrates the First 75 Years

Lee, Raya

Yadzinski, Edward

Music

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