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This article is not an argument for restoring the former name or returning the monument. Reasonable people may still disagree about symbols in public space. But we should all agree that history must be based on what we can prove — not on what we “find fair to assume.”

At the heart of that story stands Lucy Ann Sutton, cousin to Nathaniel Hawthorne. Her recollections, published in the New York Observer on August 4, 1887, constitute one of the few intimate, emotionally textured accounts of Hawthorne’s formative years.

A Buffalo Sunday newspaper article from the late 19th century offers a vivid account of the premiere of Niagara…

Lucy Ann Sutton had a long line of descendants, and my children stand at the very end of that line.

Through countless morning walks and shared moments, I've gleaned valuable insights from my neighbor, for which I am sincerely grateful. Now,