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Neighborhood regular sparks chats and compassion

Helene Seifer · January 28, 2021

Frank Sinatra liked Italian food and regularly downed three shots of bourbon while waiting for his table at Chasen’s. Hitchcock preferred champagne, fruit and French cuisine. Mick Jagger showed up […]

Commonalities and a devious blind date lead to marriage

Helene Seifer · January 28, 2021

Kathi and Mike Genewick grew up two blocks apart in Lockport, New York, a town of 25,000 in the snow belt near Buffalo. There, as Kathi states, “Everybody knows everybody.” […]

National Trust adds Ebell to list of places where women made history

Helene Seifer · December 31, 2020

In honor of the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment, which granted women the right to vote, the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Saving Places division announced […]

Children’s Institute virtual gala sparkles, raises $470,000

Helene Seifer · December 31, 2020

Confined to computer screen Zoom rectangles, the Children’s Institute’s third annual Cape & Gown Gala on Dec. 12 none-the-less sparkled in this difficult fundraising season. Emcee Loni Love, a comedian, […]

Will the pandemic gobble up Thanksgiving get-togethers?

Helene Seifer · October 28, 2020

Thanksgiving is second only to Christmas as America’s favorite holiday. This family gorge-fest has been widely celebrated since Sarah Josepha Hale, founder of “American Ladies Magazine” and writer of “Mary […]

Boxing bouts and murderous mothers: tales from an historic Irving Boulevard home

Helene Seifer · September 30, 2020

Across the street from Getty House in Windsor Square is a home at 620 S. Irving Blvd. with a history and notoriety so rich that, in 1996, the home was […]

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