Geology of Western NY
The waterway we kayak/paddle down, next to Dziadzia and Grandma's
What is Eighteen Mile Creek?
This opened a century and a half ago, and helped NY become the capital of international shipping and finance
What is the Erie Canal?
This dish is fermented for a couple weeks and make a great side.
What is sauerkraut ("Kapasta kiszana")?
This one time Buffalo resident wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Who is Mark Twain?
A sweet liquid attracts this bird to Grandma and Dziadzia's feeder.
What are hummingbirds
Rusty red mineral element on some of the beach rocks
What is iron?
He designed houses now famous around downtown and along the lakeshore
Who is Frank Lloyd Wright?
Not everyone can "stomach" this popular beef dish
What is Tripe ("flaki")?
In 1901 Buffalo city hosted the Pan-America Exposition. Unfortunately, Leon Czologosz chose this event to assassinate this US President
Who was President William McKinley.
This red-chested bird can be heard early in the morning
What is a robin?
Rock that dries and crumbles easily when exposed to air
What is shale?
In French, Niagara River was called beau fleuve (Beautiful River), this place name morphed into what city name?
What is Buffalo?
This stuffed cruciferous green dish must be boiled before it's filled
What is stuffed cabbage ("Golabki")?
This President's inauguration occurred on this Delaware Avenue historic site
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
This bird is seen soaring and nests in the Bluffs near the Manor property next door.
What is a Bald Eagle?
This layer of the Idlewood cliff is on average 1.5 feet thick and sticks out from the cliff
What is the (Tichenor) limestone layer?
More than 60 ft high, built in 1815, this warns vessels of the sandbar and shoals
What is 30 mile Point Lighthouse.
This dish has so many ways to be filled - onions, mashed, or sweets
What are pierogies?
This strait connects Lake Ontario and Lake Erie and is technically not a river.
What is the Niagara River?
This group, started in NYC and Boston, has worked to protect birds and bird habitat for over a century.
What is the Audobon Society?
In the cliff, at the mouth of the creek, this layer is also known as the fossil layers.
What are the trilobyte layers?
This First Nation was known as "the keepers of the western door"?
Who are the Seneca (part of the Iroquois Confederacy)?
This dessert is spicy - cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg, but don't try to build a house with it
What is gingerbread? ("Piernik")
A mix of hot sauce, vinegar, margarine, celery seed, cayenne, Worcestershire, Tabasco, mixed and poured over these, are a famous and popular appetizer
What are Buffalo Wings
Hundreds of birds are attracted to this former Buffalo city dump, now 264 acres with woodlands, wetlands, and marsh
What is the Tiff Nature Preserve?