Pan-American 1901 Exposition Club - News & Announcements

NEXT PAEC MEETING:

Thursday, November 16 at 7:00 p.m. at Ulrich's Tavern, located at 674 Ellicott Street, Buffalo. Please RSVP to Michele Bewley by Monday, November 13, 2006. Directions

NEW McKINLEY WEBSITE

McKinley Assassination Ink
http://mckinleydeath.com

McKinley Assassination Ink (MAI), a website devoted to providing full-text documents relating to the assassination of William McKinley.

MAI primarily consists of transcriptions of original published documents dating from, though not limited to, 1901-02. Some of these documents are presented only in excerpt form, but many of the documents are included in full. Each document (comprising its own webpage) includes publication information and keywords. The site also includes: 1) a set of seven browsing indexes, complete with links to the individual documents; 2) a selected listing of quotations culled from the documents; 3) a selected bibliography; and 4) a page of links to relevant external websites.

...The goal of MAI is to gather the largest possible selection of full-text primary source documents relating to the assassination of William McKinley and the immediate aftermath of that event, including the succession of Theodore Roosevelt to the presidency and the incarceration, trial, and execution of assassin Leon Czolgosz. The current collection of documents, numbering slightly over 100, will be steadily increased over time.

My colleague and I, both of us professional librarians, hope you enjoy this new resource and find it helpful in the future.

Sincerely,
Craig Gable, Editor
McKinley Assassination Ink

FREE PAN-AM!

Every Friday until further notice the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society’ s Resource Center is open FREE from 3:00-8:00 pm. Located at 459 Forest Ave., Buffalo, you can enjoy the exhibit “Imagining the Pan-American Exposition!”

McKINLEY ON THE HISTORY CHANNEL:

Murder at the Fair: The Assassination of President William McKinley, is part of the History Channel's 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America series, which aired in April 2006. The McKinley assassination segment featured artifacts from many local Pan-Am collections, including the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, the Kerry S. Grant Collection at the University at Buffalo Archives, the Charles Rand Penney Collection and personal collections of some of our own club members including Fred Lavin and Sue Eck.

The DVD of Murder at the Fair is available for sale as part of the Ten Days DVD set on the History Channel website's online store for approximately $39.95 + tax & S/H.

If you have news to contribute or suggestions for the site, please email Michele at mrbewley@buffalo.edu