Here are recent articles and essays by Cynthia Van Ness. She fully admits that she has 1.5 gazillion opinions and cannot stay away from the keyboard for long. She also knows that unlike some people, you are honest and conscientious and will not plagiarize--as in cut and paste into your own website or reproduce--any of these articles without first asking permission, which she is almost certain to grant.

She has written for Ancestry Daily News, Artvoice, the now-defunct Buffalo Gazette, the Buffalo News, Business First of Buffalo, Country Dance & Song Society News, FGS Forum, NEFFA News, and various genealogy periodicals across North America and overseas.

• Preface and excerpts from Victorian Buffalo
• If HMOs Ran Our Education System
  
• Back cover blurb for City on the Edge
  
• Re-Wrighting Buffalo: Build the Larkin Rowhouses
  
• Snappy Answers to Smart Questions
  
• Buffalo's Bunnywalk
  
• County Taxes Are a Bargain for Many
  
• Let's Restore Bicycling to its Glory Days in Buffalo
  
• What I Learned About Women in Buffalo's Architectural History While Writing Victorian Buffalo
  
• Buffalo's First African-American Architect
  
• The Old Curiosity Shop: McDonnell & Sons Monument Company
  
• Buffalo's Other Big Name Architect: H.H. Richardson
  
• Owners Want to Know: Who Built The House?--in which our author is interviewed by Business First
  
• Erie Canal--why saving Buffalo's Canal District matters
  
• Ugly Today, Beautiful Tomorrow: Peace Bridge Commentary
  
• Buffalo Builds on History of its Architectural Heritage
  
• Letter to Artvoice about traffic calming in Buffalo
  
• Rude Question Insults All Who Live in City
  
• Guide Books Detail 1901 Expo Souvenirs
  
• Barn History & Construction: Suggested Reading for Pleasure or Research

• The Past Is Not Online
  
• Buffalo Webwatch columns from the Buffalo Gazette, 2001-2002
  
• Shameless Begging: Ten Low-Budget Tactics for Local History Collection Development
  
• How the Internet Will Hurt Future Researchers
  
• Out of Town Libraries: Research Tips
  
• Research Trips & Skills: A Suggested Checklist
  
• Technology Threatens to Divide Us Further
  
• What Your Sock Drawer Can Teach You About Library Science
  
• What Battered Books Can Teach You About Library Science
  
• The National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections: a great, underutilized website
  
• Library Can Help with Research of Home History
• Guide Books Detail 1901 Expo Souvenirs
  
• "Downtown Library Keeps the Books on Manufacturers," Business First of Buffalo, May 10, 1999: 33. [not online]

• Best of Both? Some of Each? is about the value of local dance callers
  
• Contra Dancing and the Consumer Mentality, which was reprinted in NEFFA News, Summer 2000
  
• Contra Dance: A Bibliography
  
• I Was a Groupie with the Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

• Buffalo Preservation Report, Spring 2004

• Late Night in da Buff: Cynthia Van Ness Interview, a podcast recorded on January 23, 2006 at WNYmedia.net
• Forever Young Magazine, check out the March 2008 cover story