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“Love is Stronger than Pain” is the title of Michael O’Brien’s book memorializing the legacy of his mother, Irene Corcoran O’Brien. She lived a life of daily sacrifice, tending to the critical needs of two of her children stricken with a rare,…

“Girls didn't go by the waterfront.” Most women and girls who lived in Buffalo's First Ward -- the waterfront community at the heart of Buffalo's once-pulsating grain industry -- never went close to the waterfront or worked among the grain…

“It's like walking next to a jet, that's how loud they are.... That thing was just whistling and screaming.” Don Dodd got his start at General Mills in 1969 and worked there for decades, taking on all sorts of roles. For a time, he was a gunner -…

Bert Hyde is pictured outside The Waterfront Memories and More Museum in February 2020, with the Lake and Rail Elevator in the background.

Don Dodd displays General Mills and grain related memorabilia at his home in January 2020.

Birth records from the City of Buffalo, primarily covering the mid to late 19th and early 20th century.

Birth records from the City of Buffalo, primarily covering the mid to late 19th and early 20th century.

Birth records from the City of Buffalo, primarily covering the mid to late 19th and early 20th century.

Birth records from the City of Buffalo, primarily covering the mid to late 19th and early 20th century.