http://wyrk.com Today's Country And Your All-Time Favorites Tue, 21 May 2013 02:54:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://wyrk.com/summer-festival-time/ http://wyrk.com/summer-festival-time/#comments Sat, 14 Jul 2012 22:31:56 +0000 Jill Daniels http://wyrk.com/?p=105748 I LOVE this time of the year!  It is summer time so that means the weather is gorgeous and you don’t have to bundle up on eight layers to go outside.  Another benefit of summer in Buffalo is we only have a few months to cram in as many festivals and activities as possible until winter rolls around

]]> http://wyrk.com/summer-festival-time/feed/ 0 Getty Images http://wyrk.com/final-weekend-for-canal-fest/ http://wyrk.com/final-weekend-for-canal-fest/#comments Sat, 23 Jul 2011 18:35:39 +0000 Dale Mussen http://wyrk.com/?p=25210 For decades the dividing line between Erie and Niagara County has been the man-made Erie Canal.  Completed in 1825 it connected the Hudson River with Lake Erie to provide an inland route between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes.  The Erie Canal converted Buffalo from a sleepy outpost into a major American city making it possible to easily distribute products from Europe to the midwest and for raw materials from the midwest to be sent east.

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