![]() ![]() Lewiston actually had a few historical claims to fame, which my mother eagerly hyped. My mother, a math teacher by training rather than inclination, was an active participant in the historical society. My father, a pharmacist, owned a drugstore in the nearby honeymoon capital of Niagara Falls. While it seems calm, rarely making waves, it has deadly whirlpools swirling on its surface which can suck anything into their vortices in seconds. The river’s appearance, however, is deceptive. ![]() It is a sleepy town, protected from the rest of the world geographically, nestled at the bottom of the steep shale Niagara Escarpment on one side and the Niagara River on the other. ![]() As the Falls can be seen from the Canadian and American sides from different perspectives, so can Lewiston. Over half a century ago I grew up in Lewiston, a small town in western New York, a few miles north of Niagara Falls on the Canadian border. ![]()
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