Niagara Frontier Heritage Project

A note of concern and an encouraging shout-out here for our friend and a great contributor to the NFHP, Mike Peters. Mike is currently in hospital, semi-sedated and intubated but in stable condition, at last report, battling the devastating effects of Covid-19. Mike has been the highly capable and unfailingly patient and good-humored sound engineer for many of our NFHP episodes. Send him your most positive vibes, and add a note of moral support for Mike and his family at Mike's FB page, here: https://www.facebook.com/michealp

Grover Cleveland -- incorruptible as Erie County sheriff, Buffalo mayor, New York governor, and US President -- found his legacy darkly stained by scandal. Hear an audio vignette and read the full story at the WBFO 88.7 FM website: https://news.wbfo.org//heritage-moments-grover-good-time-m Read, listen, and tune in all this week on WBFO -- Mon. 12:39 pm (during "Here & Now"); Tue. 6:18p ("All Things Considered"); Wed. 4:48p ("ATC"); Thu. 6:18p ("ATC"); Sat. 8:18a (..."Weekend Edition"); and Sun. 9:18a ("WE"). All of our Niagara Frontier Heritage Project Moments are here at the WBFO 88.7 FM site: https://news.wbfo.org/term/heritage-moments#stream/0 https://www.facebook.com/niagarafrontierheritage/

We'd be remiss in failing to carry on our footnoting. In the famous words of Emil Faber, "Knowledge is good," so here's more reading for you, timely and relevant to our previous and current posts -- compare the indiscretions of the President above to the sordid goonery of the entity currently occupying the office, that good pal of late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein **, as recounted in a respected fact-checking site, a celeb mag, and three slightly right-leaning publications, no...t that we should be accused of progressive bias: > https://www.snopes.com//2/06/23/donald-trump-rape-lawsuit/ > https://people.com//donald-trump-rape-lawsuit-accuser-rap/ > https://www.independent.co.uk//trump-sexual-assault-allega > https://www.usnews.com//trump-and-women-a-look-at-lawsuits > https://www.businessinsider.com/women-accused-trump-sexual- ** https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/jeffrey-epstein And as a follow-up to our previous item, more news pertinent to the treatment of Indigenous peoples and public (yours and our) lands: > https://news.wbfo.org//fairport-says-farewell-first-white- 10-6 > https://news.wbfo.org//local-native-americans-observe-indi > https://www.culturalsurvival.org//presidents-day-2020-11-w > https://thehill.com//490362-federal-bureau-revoking-reserv > https://www.politico.com//07/03/trump-mount-rushmore-347982 > https://www.sunset.com//trump-administration-approves-oil- > https://www.newsmax.com//anwr-arctic/2020/09/09/id/986129/ > https://www.popularmechanics.com//trump-mining-grand-cany/

The Kinzua Dam flooded the homes and burial grounds of the Seneca Nation, breaking the promise of a 160-year-old treaty that had been affirmed by George Washington. Listen, and read the full story, at the WBFO-FM 88.7 website: https://news.wbfo.org//heritage-moments-kinzua-dam-and-bro Read, listen, and tune in all this week on WBFO -- Mon. 12:39 pm (during "Here & Now"); Tue. 6:18p ("All Things Considered"); Wed. 4:48p ("ATC"); Thu. 6:18p ("ATC"); Sat. 8:18a ("We...ekend Edition"); and Sun. 9:18a ("WE"). All of our Niagara Frontier Heritage Project Moments are here at the WBFO 88.7 FM site: https://news.wbfo.org/term/heritage-moments#stream/0 https://www.facebook.com/niagarafrontierheritage/

We're again footnoting the item directly above with some worthwhile related reading. It shouldn't be hard to guess whether environmental mayhem and total disrespect of Indigenous peoples and cultures have improved or worsened under the current federal administration, but here's just a small sampling of objective evidence: > https://www.theguardian.com//us-national-parks-dismantling > https://www.culturalsurvival.org//presidents-day-2020-11-w > https://thehill.co...m//481826-trump-administration-finalizes > https://www.brookings.edu//what-is-the-trump-administrati/ > https://www.vanityfair.com//donald-trump-environment-roose > https://www.motherjones.com//the-black-hills-are-not-for-/

On a happier note -- and jeez, couldn't we all use one -- Alleyway Theatre "reopens" with a dynamic collection of short plays, "Currents: 716" -- short films, really, shot around Western New York and featuring writers and actors who've contributed to our Niagara Frontier Heritage Project radio productions! The "Currents: 716" performances are available for viewing on-line only through September 26. It's Home Theatre! Catch a teaser video and get tickets here: https://www.alleyway.com/ More here: https://www.facebook.com/AlleywayTheatre/

Equal pay for equal work -- seems like common sense, but in 1944, Buffalo's Winifred Stanley had to fight a legislative battle for that basic fairness. Her story, with an audio vignette, is told in this Niagara Frontier Heritage Project Moment at the WBFO 88.7 FM website: https://news.wbfo.org//heritage-moments-buffalo-congresswo Read, listen, and tune in all this week on WBFO -- Mon. 12:39 pm (during "Here & Now"); Tue. 6:18p ("All Things Considered"); Wed. 4:48p (..."ATC"); Thu. 6:18p ("ATC"); Sat. 8:18a ("Weekend Edition"); and Sun. 9:18a ("WE"). All of our NFHP episodes are here at the WBFO 88.7 FM site: https://news.wbfo.org/term/heritage-moments#stream/0 https://www.facebook.com/niagarafrontierheritage/

As a footnote to this week's NFHP Moment (above), here from the political theatre is another set of attitudes and remarks about women, also with a local angle. Usually we try to highlight the best from the Niagara Frontier, but here's the opposite: Buffalo native, longtime Russian businessman and political hack, Putin toady, married twice to Eastern Bloc women, Roger Stone lickspittle, Russian contact, vulgarian, misogynist, racist, coward, liar, disgrace and embarrassment ...to his community, and fanatic advisor to and spokesman for an administration that enthusiastically shares his vile extremist views. This is the sort of entity currently controlling America. > https://www.cnn.com//michael-caputo-sexist-twee/index.html > https://www.rawstory.com/?s=caputo > https://www.msnbc.com//sketchy-trump-official-reportedly-h > https://news.wbfo.org//democrats-probe-whether-caputo-othe See more

The 1901 assassination of President William McKinley forever cast a shadow over Buffalo's Pan-American Exposition and the "City of Light." Hear a Niagara Frontier Heritage Project audio vignette and read the full story at the WBFO 88.7 FM website: https://news.wbfo.org//heritage-moments-mortally-wounded-w Read, listen, and tune in all this week on WBFO -- Mon. 12:39 pm (during "Here & Now"); Tue. 6:18p ("All Things Considered"); Wed. 4:48p ("ATC"); Thu. 6:18p ("ATC"...); Sat. 8:18a ("Weekend Edition"); and Sun. 9:18a ("WE"). All of our NFHP Moments are here at the WBFO 88.7 FM site: https://news.wbfo.org/term/heritage-moments#stream/0 https://www.facebook.com/niagarafrontierheritage/

Two plagues are sickening America. Until we end them both, nothing gets back to "normal." Keep your masks on, wash your hands, and stay informed. Don't spread the virus -- spread the news and the real facts. https://www.dailykos.com//-The-biggest-lies-of-the-Trump-P https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1298067879884193799 ... https://www.motherjones.com//04/trump-coronavirus-timeline/ https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/ https://www.newyorker.com//how-trump-is-helping-tycoons-ex

Teenager Marilyn Bell won heroic status in Canada as the first human to swim across Lake Ontario, 66 years ago next week. Her ordeal and triumph are dramatized in the current episode from the Niagara Frontier Heritage Project -- listen and read the full story at the WBFO 88.7 FM website: https://news.wbfo.org//heritage-moments-marilyn-bell-teena Read, listen, and tune in all this week on WBFO -- Mon. 12:39 pm (during "Here & Now"); Tue. 6:18p ("All Things Considered")...; Wed. 4:48p ("ATC"); Thu. 6:18p ("ATC"); Sat. 8:18a ("Weekend Edition"); and Sun. 9:18a ("WE"). All of our NFHP Moments are here at the WBFO 88.7 FM site: https://news.wbfo.org/term/heritage-moments#stream/0 https://www.facebook.com/niagarafrontierheritage/

Related reading, pertinent to last week's episode: John Zach's new book, explored here on WBFO: https://news.wbfo.org//new-book-recalls-how-lbjs-visit-alt And in appalling, horrifying contrast to that inspiring story, these items, just for starters, with happy news on toxifying your water, flooding your property, and poisoning your children: https://www.nytimes.com///trump-environment-rollbacks.html and ... https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-nepa-rollback-2646418035.html and https://electrek.co//trump-national-environmental-policy-/ and https://newrepublic.com//will-take-years-undo-damage-trump and... Another thing to think about when you vote in November. That little list had been included at the end of our post (below) about last week's episode, "Stanley Spisiak, LBJ, and a bucket of Buffalo River sludge" [ https://news.wbfo.org//heritage-moments-stanley-spisiak-lb ], but it was largely hidden by the length of the post and Facebook's unforgiving format. How many visitors actually click on "See More" to read an entire entry? So we've removed it from last week's post and given it its own space.

In 1966, Bufffalo's pioneering environmentalist Stan Spisiak convinced President Johnson to resuscitate lethally polluted Lake Erie -- a phenomenal achievement, now threatened again by today's corrupt, toxic version of the EPA. Hear a Niagara Frontier Heritage Project audio dramatization and read the full story at the WBFO 88.7 FM website: https://news.wbfo.org//heritage-moments-stanley-spisiak-lb Read, listen, and tune in all this week on WBFO -- Mon. 12:39 pm (during "Here & Now"); Tue. 6:18p ("All Things Considered"); Wed. 4:48p ("ATC"); Thu. 6:18p ("ATC"); Sat. 8:18a ("Weekend Edition"); and Sun. 9:18a ("WE").

Millions of lives have been saved by the cardiac pacemaker, the invention of Western New York's own Wilson Greatbatch -- and his development of the device is dramatized in the current Niagara Frontier Heritage Project Moment. At least one NFHP staff member is grateful! Listen and read the full story at the WBFO 88.7 FM website: https://news.wbfo.org//heritage-moments-clarence-engineer- -- and tune in all this week on WBFO: Mon. 12:39 pm (during "Here & Now"); Tue. 6...:18p ("All Things Considered"); Wed. 4:48p ("ATC"); Thu. 6:18p ("ATC"); Sat. 8:18a ("Weekend Edition"); and Sun. 9:18a ("WE"). All of our NFHP Moments are here at the WBFO 88.7 FM site: https://news.wbfo.org/term/heritage-moments#stream/0 https://www.facebook.com/niagarafrontierheritage/