Christine Smyczynski ____Writer
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    • November-Dec 2014 >
      • Grove City Shopping
      • Lewiston Day Trip
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Christine A. Smyczynski is a native western New Yorker with a longtime interest in regional history and local attractions.  In addition to being the author of several travel guides about western New York and New York State, she is the author of hundreds of articles about the region. She writes regularly for Forever Young Magazine and contributes frequently to Western New York Family Magazine, Longweekends, and several other publications. She has written numerous travel articles for the Buffalo News.

She has also written for the National Catholic Register, Rochester Magazine, Buffalo  Spree, and a number of other local and regional publications.  Mrs. Smyczynski lives outside of Buffalo, NY with her  husband and four children.

Her latest books , Backroads and Byways of Upstate New York, came out in September 2017 and Explorer's Guide Buffalo & Niagara Falls in May 2018. She is also the author of Western New York Explorer's Guide (2005,2008)


Follow this link to my blog http://www.explorewesternnewyork.blogspot.com

Check out this great video about Buffalo put together in August 2019 by Cushman Wakefield
http://video.cushmanwakefield.com/watch/8DLDceWWEYJCxRPagFZqhT?custom_id&fbclid=IwAR1iMGr_1c6zbGzgnEsghJwfUlxvpzqsgLDwWWlYrUyTyhgfKUt53Q6N-KI

 


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