{"id":18552,"date":"2017-01-13T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=18552"},"modified":"2017-01-11T06:28:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T11:28:21","slug":"higgs-before-niagara-falls-was-a-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/13\/higgs-before-niagara-falls-was-a-city\/","title":{"rendered":"HIGGS: Before Niagara Falls was a city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagara-gazette.com\/opinion\/higgs-before-niagara-falls-was-a-city\/article_91e8d7a4-d61d-11e6-93f5-0785d133e621.html\">Niagara Gazette<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What was life like in the early days of the Niagara area \u2014 even before it was a fully fledged city? I hope you are somewhat interested as I am part of the planning committee for the Niagara Falls 125th celebration and will be writing about the early days in Niagara Falls each week.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Paul Dyster will be holding a press conference this Wednesday to announce some of the plans. We have a long and colorful history and we can always learn from it. There will be various events which will highlight our history throughout the year and I hope you will be a part of them&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Old newspapers are the main source of my research and the Niagara Falls Gazette was publishing during these times and I have online sources to refer to also. Of course, the Local History Department at the Main Street library is also a great source for information. So let\u2019s begin \u201cbefore\u201d we were a \u201ccity.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Gazette: What was life like in the early days of the Niagara area \u2014 even before it was a fully fledged city? I hope you are somewhat interested as I am part of the planning committee for the Niagara Falls 125th celebration and will be writing about the early days in Niagara&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,54,2],"tags":[11647,2646,3028,738,11648,561,660],"class_list":["post-18552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-history","category-niagara-falls-new-york","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-125th-birthday","tag-anniversary","tag-celebration","tag-history","tag-main-street-library","tag-niagara-gazette","tag-paul-dyster"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18553,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18552\/revisions\/18553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}