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Survey says…
*DING* Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater is the correct answer! Congrats to both Toni, one of our hosts at the Silverstone Inn, and Chris Byrd for guessing correctly. We planned a stop at Fallingwater on our trip home, since it’s about a 6.5 hour drive direct from Buffalo. More photos and narrative when I get a…
Bookstores everywhere
With the Borders at Quaker Crossing progressing right along, today comes this announcement of Barnes & Noble building a new store at the McKinley Mall. The proclaimed world’s largest bookseller will open its first Southtowns store sometime in 2007, officials confirmed Wednesday. It was also noted that it will be the only Barnes & Noble…