BUFFALO, N.Y. — Even in the dead of winter, the Buffalo Zoo’s Rainforest Falls exhibit stays verdant. Vines creep. Birds nest in a green canopy. Flowers bloom in a firework of color. The caretakers of this elaborate, indoor garden include Steve Mead, the zoo’s director of horticulture and maintenance, and Dave Goehle, zoo groundskeeper. The two [...]
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BUFFALO, N.Y. — In the shade of snakewood and trumpet trees, a new day is beginning in the indoor rainforest at the Buffalo Zoo. Newly freed from the holding cage where he spends the night, Machado, a black howler monkey and father of two, is perched on a branch in a corner exhibit. His head raised, [...]
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BUFFALO, N.Y. — Even if you know nothing about the oboe or the clarinet, about how these instruments are made or how they make their music, you would know that the heartwood of the African blackwood tree is something special. The material is dense and dark: black like coffee or molasses or the armor of [...]
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Marc Potzler and Jacob Wickham met in 1988, two young boys in a children’s bug club south of Buffalo. Each was an insectophile, having grown up with a fondness for the creeping critters that other people dismissed as pests. Marc grew up in West Falls, outside of East Aurora, on a [...]
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PALMYRA, N.Y. — The Hill Cumorah Pageant, held yearly on a grassy slope outside of Rochester, may be the only place you’ll ever see a Mormon dad in clip-on earrings and a shoulder-length wig. On warm July nights beneath the stars, the production unfolds on eight connected stages, with actors braving fireballs and artificial rain [...]
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ONONDAGA NATION — In the hands of craftsman Alf Jacques, wood bends and changes in ways it won’t for other men. From logs of pale, white hickory, he conjures beauty, grace. He splits, steams and shapes the timber until something exquisite emerges–something that gleams. Jacques, 63, is a famed maker of wooden lacrosse sticks. He [...]
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