Buffalo Lit by Carriage

370 Virginia Street,Buffalo NY 14201

11 September, 2021

Description

Ticket is for 4 people. The story of 5 authors’ lives in Buffalo, how the city shaped them & their writing & how they helped shape the city. This ticket is for the entire carriage, which seas 4 people. This tour takes you through Allentown by Banner Farm's horse drawn carriage to tell the story of William Wells Brown’s introduction to the Abolition movement and his first forays in writing and lecturing during his 9 years in the city, Mark Twain’s time with a Buffalo Newspaper where he ultimately decided that novel-writing was his next step, Marion De Forest’s career as one of Buffalo’s first female journalists and popular playwright, Anna Katherine Green’s life as the Mother of the Detective Novel and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Buffalo childhood. Tour takes about 1 hour.