10/20/2025 @ 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Join the Waterway of Change for a free book club down at Canalside! 44 Prime Street. We are located in the Longshed Building.

Thomas J. Geelan’s Infection and Perdition is available at Canalside and the Buffalo History Museum.

About the book: In the mid-1800s, Buffalo’s Erie Canal District was among the world’s most dangerous places. Ciaran McGarry, an Irish orphan and canal hoggee, survives as a pickpocket and black-market hustler before rising to power as a businessman and politician—while secretly living as a sadistic, schizophrenic killer. Through his fractured life, the book explores survival, corruption, moral decay, and discrimination, set against the gritty, historically accurate backdrop of Buffalo’s transformation into a major industrial center.

About the Author: Thomas J. Geelan, a lifelong Niagara Frontier resident and former science educator, drew on his background as a research scientist and a decade of historical study to write this book on Buffalo’s Erie Canal heritage.

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