Buffalo History Museum to host 2nd ‘Presidential Palooza’

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Buffalo History Museum will hold its second “Presidential Palooza” on Wednesday, with trivia, scavenger hunts, performances and activities for all ages, helping to share local presidential stories of the past.

“It gives context, it gives perspective, and it helps people understand where they fit in and where Buffalo fits in U.S. history,” said Anthony Greco, director of exhibits at the Buffalo History Museum. “It really comes back to the important role that Buffalo played as an American City — the turn of the century of the 1900s, was the eighth largest city in the country, so it was important for presidents to come here, it was important to have Buffalo support.”

While at the palooza, attendees can also walk around the museum and look some of its artifacts that help tell the stories of local presidential ties.

Buffalo History Museum to hold ‘Presidential Palooza’

“We can tell all the stories we want, but artifacts make those stories real,” Greco said.

A portrait mask of President Abraham Lincoln, who stopped in Western New York while campaigning for the Oval Office, will be featured, along with a piece of wedding cake from when President Grover Cleveland married his wife Frances in 1886. Artifacts from the assassination of President William McKinley, including the gun and the handkerchief, can also be seen at the event.

“These objects, when you come here, you see them and you realize that these people that maybe only exist on a page in a book or in your head, it makes it a little more real,” Greco said.

The Presidential Palooza will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and tickets to the event are free. For more information on the Buffalo History Museum and the event, visit its website here.

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