WIVB 4 (Buffalo), “Presidential Inauguration history in WNY”

The tragic fall of one President led to the rise of another. President William McKinley visited the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in September, 1901. A 28-year-old named Leon Czolgosz approached him with a gun. He shot the President in the stomach twice. “Czolgosz was an anarchist and he believed that by killing the President of […]

The Buffalo News, “A granddaughter’s portrayal of Dorothy Day”

Get ready now for a few paragraphs that detail the complication that describes Dorothy’s life over the next ten years. In 1917, atheism, anarchism, socialism, vegetarianism, women’s rights, free love, free speech, free thought – all were in the air in New York City’s Greenwich Village, our author writes. Continue Reading