YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN US HOWLING: When Buffalo Ruled the Inland Seas

Once a teeming Great Lakes port famed for its ships and reviled for its dockside brothels and bars, Buffalo was the brawling crossroads of America, a maritime city where the Erie Canal ended and the open water began, with a rich legacy of gales, songs, yarns, shipwrecks and lives saved and lost on the lakes' treacherous, storm-tossed waters. You Should Have Seen Us Howling covers all of that, from Buffalo's founding and its years as a big, infamous harbor town through its decline after 1960 to today, as it celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Erie Canal.