Oakland Place book excerpts online

Mary Vought Lansing House
Ella Portia Conger Goodyear and Her Children
Georgia Forman House
Duane Lyman House

Mark Goldman book "High Hopes" is online

The Rise and Decline of Buffalo, New York

Downtown Revealed including Erie Canal Harbor

While awaiting a formal announcement, docents should start familiarizing themselves with the harbor area. You may even want to skip the Market Arcade, take the train to the harbor and start your tour there. At some time in the future, all Downtown Revealed tours will start at the harbor.

Buffalo Videos

Four videos are now available for viewing at the Visitor Center in the Market Arcade and online.

2008 Tour Brochures

The 2008 Buffalo Tours brochure is out. Our next job is to get it into the community. You can help without significant effort. While you're running your errands and appointments, ask if you can display some of our brochures. If you let me know where you've left them, I can update our Distrubution History shown in the links post below.

We have 100,000 copies. We are also distributing through:
- Yankee Doodle - display racks all around Western New York, over 40,000
- Tabling at events
- Mailing to members of Landmark and PresCo
- Convention and Visitors Bureau

To get your supply of brochures or for any clarification contact:
Ron Schmitz, 836-8433

Graduation Tours

Those not doing graduation tours on any of the the upcoming Saturdays (5/17-6/7) are encouraged to tag-along. It's a good way to prepare for your own graduation tour or to keep the material fresh until you do your first public tour. Please signup if you're planning on coming. Also, please signup for your own graduation tour if you haven't done so already. If you're not ready to do a tour on your own, consider teaming up. You can view the graduation tour signup in the links post below.

Questions, extenuating circumstances or signups:
Ron Schmitz, 836-8433

Makeup Session - Saturday 5/10 - 10 a.m.

Todd will repeat his talk entitled A History of Greater Buffalo, in a Nutshell for those who missed it because of snow or those who'd like to hear more than his abbreviated 3/9 talk. It will be in the Architecture Center in the Market Arcade and will last approximately 90 minutes.

You may want to look again at the reading assigned for that week.

Links for 2008 Training

Procedure Documents
See Procedure Links at top right of Blog.

Tour Documents:
Sign In Sheet
Tour Reporting Form

Training Documents:
Docent Evaluation
Written Test

2008 Signups:
Tours & Docents
Brochure Distribution
Tabling
Graduation Tours

Readings for 4/26:
Buffalo Rising
Fix Buffalo

Buffalo Tours:
Blog
Website