Buffalo Niagara Heritage Village — Attraction in Town of Amherst

We went for one of the maplefest weekends. There was a museum showing how people used to live and work . I didn't see everything, but noticed a lack of info about the native culture, pre-Europeans. There are several buildings depicting 1700's to 1900's lifestyle. Some people were in character dress. One lady was cooking sweets on a woodstove. There was a schoolhouse (locked), an apothecary, a few other locked buildings, a barnyard and a woodshop. Barnyard had some livestock, chickens, cows. The woodshop let people chop and shape wood with various tools. People were outside boiling maple sap to make syrup. That was...

My family and I went to do the breakfast and maple trail. Certainly not what I was expecting. The dining staff was very unorganized and rude. The breakfast was cold. The nice thing about the tour was the outdoor staff. They were very nice, informative and kept good conversation. I was really not pleased with the dining room staff with the exception of the bus boy. No one could tell me where to get hot water to make my baby's bottle, the woman didn't know where the bathroom was, a man finally showed me into their kitchen to use the hot water tap....

They have done great improvents to their facilities. Much better than the 80's but now they are costing the tax payers millions of dollars to unnecessarily move their historic village. This caused a tax increase of 11.2% this year, forcing the elderly and poor to move out of amherst because they can not afford the taxes. Shame on you BNHV. Your mission statement says rural several times, yet you are taking millions of dollars from the Amherst tax payers to move to a suburan location. Stay where you are and save the town from this...