Suzanne Taylor, AUDieu: Buffalo Says Goodbye to the Aud
Mark Donnelly, Frozen Assets

Talking Leaves…Books is pleased to announce that our Elmwood store will be the site for two book signing events featuring new books and calendars from Buffalo Heritage Press.  On Sunday, December 6 at 3 pm Suzanne Taylor will be on hand to sign copies of her new book, AUDieu:Buffalo Says Goodbye to the Aud, and of the new wall calendar, 2010: Buffalo Says Goodbye to the Aud, that is a companion to the book. 

On Tuesday evening, December 8, at 7 pm, we play host to photographer Mark Donnelly, whose work is featured in the new book Frozen Assets: The Beautiful Truth about Western New York Winters, and in the new calendar, 2010—A Year to Celebrate Buffalo.  Both events are free and open to the public.  The new books and calendars, along with other Buffalo Heritage Press offerings, will be available for purchase.

Photographer and hockey writer Suzanne Taylor has spent the past several months, camera in hand, on the site of the Memorial Auditorium, documenting the painstaking process of its demolition.  Her work is showcased in AUDieu, a fitting tribute to this treasured building, source of countless memories throughout our community.  A beautiful 120-page, full color coffee table book, AUDieu tells the story of Buffalo’s Memorial Auditorium through hundreds of photographs and the memories of some of her most ardent fans.  Follow the Aud, from triumphant groundbreaking in 1938 to heartbreaking demolition in this year.  Watch the building come down, flip-book style, and enjoy decades of Aud memories celebrating our deep ties to this iconic venue. AUDieu commemorates and celebrates the moments that so many shared there.  Buffalo Heritage Press has also produced a 2010 wall calendar, Buffalo Says Goodbye to the Aud, as another memorial of an old friend.

Suzanne K. Taylor is a stage manager, retired attorney, photographer, and hockey writer. Beginning with short reports as The Aud Braud on CKEY and CJRN in the 1990s, she went on to become sports editor of Buffalo Beat, a morning co-host on WNSA (and the first person they ever fired), a columnist for Western New York Hockey Magazine, the columnist known as Puckvoice for Artvoice and the Buffalo Examiner, and the official photographer of the demolition of The Aud. She lives in downtown Buffalo with her dog Yodel, and has the honor of being the last person to be inside the Aud.

Mark Donnelly, who in last year’s The Fine Art of Capturing Buffalo showcased the city’s arts and cultural heritage, takes on the heady task of celebrating the season for which Buffalo is (un)justly (in)famous in Frozen Assets.  He shows us the city dressed up in her pearly whites during her least appreciated and often spectacular time of year--the three months of winter (OK, some might say 4 or 5 months…). He has some fun, captures much of the city’s beauty and grandeur, and debunks some of the exaggerations about our unpredictable weather.

Dr. Mark Donnelly is an artist, an educator, a passionate community and environmental activist, a proud husband and father, and a man seldom separated from his camera, which has garnered him numerous awards and showings in the Albright Knox, the Burchfield-Penney, and other galleries.