Heritage Engagement Project

Each year on March 20th, the World Happiness Report is released, sharing the state of happiness on a global scale. You can have fun exploring the report’s dashboard with happiness…

For those living in northern latitudes, February is a cold, sometimes lonely month. Our access to nature can be restricted by bitter winds and unfriendly temperatures. We are often disconnected…

Icy road in LaSalle Park with city skyline in distance, January 19, 1979. Collection of the Buffalo History Museum.

December is often a month of reflection, the approaching year-end prompting us to look back. As this year saw the start of the RWP Heritage Engagement Project, I thought I…

There is a lot of attention on science this month. November 10th was World Science Day for Peace and Development, an annual event started by UNESCO, the educational, scientific, and…

The Great Lakes are an unparalleled natural resource. Not only does fresh water not exist in this quantity anywhere else in America, it doesn’t exist in this abundance anywhere else…

It’s hard to miss them this week. Weighed down with backpacks, pouring off buses and running across the crosswalks, Buffalo kids are hard to miss during back-to-school season. Such visibility…

Time spent in a community park can be good for your health. Seems obvious, but the reasons are not necessarily what you think. Sure, access to fresh air and the…

On July 1, 1932, Buffalo started a 10-day celebration for its 100th birthday. This centennial celebration brought massive crowds from near and far to the land today being redesigned as…