When a meeting adjourned tonight at Corpus Christi Church, this Polish flag flying in front of the church caught my attention. I decided to shoot a little video.

To be honest, I sometimes need a reminder why I do what I do here in B-F. Everything over here is a struggle at times. After a three hour meeting at CCC, I was thinking about all the hard work I and others do to keep the church and neighborhood alive. A lot of the tasks daunting…a lot of the problems seem insurmountable.

Then I saw the flag blowing in the wind and was reminded as to why people devote countless hours to the neighborhood. It is important that we preserve what we can here. The history, the heritage, this neighborhood built by my ancestors are why. We just can’t let it fade away like it meant nothing.

B-F may never be what it was fifty years ago, but its old bones remain. These bones have kept it alive long after a lot of people have written it off. These bones can help build its future.

A L I V E!


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2 thoughts on “This is why

  1. I appreciate your efforts in everything you do to show the current progress and pictures of the BF area.

    I left the neighborhood in 1984 after I graduated from Hutch Tech to attend DeVry College in Columbus, Ohio. I never moved back to Buffalo but I visit often and each time I’m in town I have to go through the BF area and stop by the Market…

    Keep up the good work – those of us not there really enjoy and look forward to your posts. It gives me (and I’m sure all of us) a sense of still living there..

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