Frank Thomas Croisdale

back to Niagara Falls Reporter main page back to Niagara Falls Reporter archive By Frank Thomas Croisdale Tat,tat,tat,tat. Tat,tat,tat,tat. I strike the plastic blade of my Franklin street-hockey stick repeatedly on the concrete to signal that I'm open. Dave Grandin feathers a sweet pass to the center of the band of black electrical tape wound around my blade.

Niagara Falls Reporter back to Niagara Falls Reporter main page back to Niagara Falls Reporter archive THINKING OF RELOCATING? WHY NOT TO NIAGARA FALLS? By Frank Thomas Croisdale Flashes of insight sometimes come at the strangest of places--the outdoor basketball courts at Niagara University, for example. It was there a few years back that I figured out what's wrong with people from Niagara Falls. We don't like ourselves.

back to Niagara Falls Reporter main page back to Niagara Falls Reporter archive AMID TEARS, A NEW LIFE ENTERS A MORE DANGEROUS WORLD By Frank Thomas Croisdale Two days, two outlooks. On Tuesday, Sept. 11, I joined the rest of America in officially packaging up our false sense of national security and mailing it back to the black-and-white, Ozzie-and-Harriet world from which it was unjustly spawned.