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A move to Buffalo called for a walk through the old downtown with a camera. The photos from that day, sent to the newspaper, called for an article to explain them. That article led to interviews with chefs, farmers, surgeons and longtime Buffalonians. Those stories, interviews and NPR radio pieces are gathered here to explain just why people put up with all that snow and cold in Buffalo and love living there. If you've ever received a traffic ticket, moved a few times and had an equal number of garage sales, suffered through piano lessons as well as jury duty, had a good friend and lost a good friend--there's a story here for you.

Sam and Eda Suess spent childhood years of 1885-1905 on the Kansas prairie. As adults they wrote the details of sod house construction, prairie fires and crop failure before the family moved to Garden City, Kansas where they at last attended regular schools. Their parents seemingly could do anything, from building a house or digging a well, to delivering a baby or preaching a sermon, but they couldn't get corn or wheat out of a perpetually dry Kansas field and to market. These are the memories of a brother and sister, written down as neighboring adults in La Verne, California in the 1960s where they spent their later years-- happily removed from that struggle, but delighting in tell ...