Campaign's Pancake Breakfast and Winter Ramble to Ring in New Year!
Fuel up and then head out to historic Forest Lawn, one of America's first "rural cemeteries." Espy graves of the famous, infamous, and just plain rich. Free!
Dear Friends,
We’re turning my house into Flappy Jack’s, a blink-of-the-eye pop-up pancake house, to host the 2024 edition of the Campaign for Greater Buffalo’s Pancake Breakfast and Winter Ramble. Campaign members in good standing and their friends are invited to stop by on 1/1 at 9:11 for buckwheat pancakes with your choice of blueberries, apples, bananas, walnuts, whipped cream, and maple syrup! Your good company is the cost of admission.
The breakfast will be followed, no matter the weather (that is the point!), by an invigorating ramble up to and throughout Forest Lawn Cemetery. We’ll see many notable funerary monuments and tiny-temple mausoleums. RSVP by text or voicemail to 716-854-3749. Good food, good convo, and good cardio!
Don’t forget we have a mission to carry out, and we need your continuing support to be successful. If you need to renew your membership or make an annual donation, now’s the time! (If you plan on coming to the breakfast, you can do both there.)
We’ve been busy in the past year at all points of the compass across the City of Buffalo preserving, proposing, advocating, educating, outreaching, inteaching, you name it.
We have had huge victories over the years—The Richardson, the Canal District, the Cobblestone District, the Central Terminal, landmark legislation (literally!), you name it. Even when hard-fought battles don’t go our way, we galvanize the community support of preservation. Architectural heritage is a Buffalo calling card because of us.
The upcoming years promise an era-defining battle over correcting an all-too-evident mega-mistake of the past—the Kensington Expressway—or whether we accept a greenwashed billion-dollar reconstruction of it that guarantees another 70 years of The Road That Killed Downtown Buffalo.
That is why we need your support more than ever. Please contribute to our 2024 Annual Fund at $50, $100, $200 or any amount you can; you can also donate monthly at $5 or more. To donate, just scan the QR code below with your phone or computer camera, or mail a check The Campaign for Greater Buffalo, 403 Main St., Suite 705, Buffalo, NY 14203. You can also go to our website at GreaterBuffalo.blogs.com and become a member through the sidebar on the homepage. Donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Don’t forget to stop by my house New Year’s day for flapjacks and an invigorating ramble to and through historic and scenic Forest Lawn Cemetery! It’ll be great to see you!
Thank you!
Tim Tielman