7.17.11 - Shuffle Off To Buffalo

Breakfast is bagels with the Feldman-Shanahan clan and discussion about the Erie Canal, new immigrants, freestyle ceramics, high school drop out rates and Rochester's community arts spaces like the Flying Squirrel and Writers and Books. Thus fortified on food and food for thought, we head off to explore the Victorian Mount Hope Cemetery where Susan B. Anthony is buried, the local kids learn to drive and wican "energy spots" abound. Downtown we gaze at some public art, peruse an awesome newsstand (complete with snack bar!), and walk the Genesee River before heading off to the George Eastman House. Quite honestly, despite the charming gardens, Eastman House is underwhelming but it is a small thrill to be in the same room with Alfred Stieglitz's camera.
And now: Buffalo and the esteemed Squeaky Wheel which is one of the grandmamas of community cinema orgs having been rollin' for more than 25 years now and definitely a role model for Echo Park Film Center. Since it's the last day of Buffalo Bike Week, tonight's event is a bike-in workshop and screening in the open lot next to the Squeaky Wheel... World On Wheels, the Here and Now's homage to international two-wheel travel, is especially well received. Ride one, ride all!