My Polish-Italian Hometown Tonawanda, NY

My Polish-Italian Hometown Tonawanda, NY

Only after I grew up and moved away from my hometown of Tonawanda, NY, did I realize and appreciate the Polish and Italian ethnicity of our community Now when I get a chance to return, I love to see all the old familiar Polish and Italian names on the businesses,...
The Irish Bride: A New Novella by Renee Yancy

The Irish Bride: A New Novella by Renee Yancy

Out this week, a new anthology of historical novellas in The Runaway Brides Collection. My novella, The Irish Bride, relates the story of Deanie Devane, who escapes the Irish potato famine after her father’s death and sails across the ocean to America to make a...
Floating Killer Brains on WKBW’s Fright Night

Floating Killer Brains on WKBW’s Fright Night

Fright Night at 159 Findlay Avenue and floating killer brains? Being the oldest in a big Catholic family had its perks. New clothes instead of the hand-me-downs my younger sisters received. It had its cons, too. As the oldest, I had to help my mother with my younger...
Delaware Pool Summers in Tonawanda, NY

Delaware Pool Summers in Tonawanda, NY

It was a near daily pilgrimage in the 60’s. Walk down Findlay Avenue to Vicksburg, turn left and walk the two short blocks to Ted’s. Turn right on Sheridan. Past the Animal Clinic with its cat skeleton in the window.  Across the railroad tracks. I...
The World’s Oldest Face Cream

The World’s Oldest Face Cream

This little tin pot is 2,000 years old. The lid still bears the fingermarks of the person who last used it. The World’s Oldest Face Cream Archaeologists discovered the world’s oldest face cream in 2003 when they excavated a Roman temple on the banks of the...
The Crazy World of Bingo at St. Amelia’s

The Crazy World of Bingo at St. Amelia’s

I grew up in Tonawanda, NY, the oldest of nine children, in a good Catholic family. (That’s code for no birth control)  Like most other mothers at that time, my mom stayed home with the kids while my Dad worked at Hooker Chemical on Grand Island as a research chemist....
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