LIBRARY CLOSING

The Lewiston Public Library will close to the public at 3 p.m. on Saturday, February 27 for installation of new carpeting in the meeting room, the Jon F. Popkey Genealogy Room and the magazine reading area. While the building is closed, residents will be able to return materials using the bookdrop.

The Library appreciates our customers’ patience and understanding as we work to complete this important project as quickly as possible. We will reopen on Monday, March 8th at 10 a.m. For more information, contact the Library at 754-4720.

Burke’s Descriptive Guide, or the Visitors’ Companion to Niagara Falls

Burke’s Descriptive Guide, or the Visitors’ Companion to Niagara Falls

By Andrew Burke, 1851

Perhaps you are familiar with the usual Niagara Falls guidebooks…this is not of that ilk. Compact and neat, it would fit into your wallet. When you open it you are immediately offered aticket on the Buffalo and Niagara Falls Railroad andoff you go into the Twilight Zone. Your tour includes the cholera epidemics, a tragic suicide, a hog’s back, “the three profiles,” a hermit, human remains, white canoes, and “old Neptune himself.”

View this book in the Local History Room at the Lewiston Public Library.