A historical perspective on the people and places of Niagara County, New York, including the War of 1812, the Underground Railroad, historic Lockport, and celebrities such as Jack London and Belva Lockwood.
Bob Kostoff is a native of Niagara Falls and was educated in local schools. He graduated summa cum laude from Niagara University. A retired journalist, he worked for the Niagara Falls Gazette in the Lockport Bureau, for the Buffalo Courier-Express and the Lockport Union-Sun & Journal.
While he covered all aspects of the Western New York scene for the newspapers, he researched and wrote hundreds of feature articles on local history. He is the author of several other books, both fiction and non-fiction..
He currently writes a local history column for the weekly newspaper, The Niagara Falls Reporter.
