Acknowledgments

CCSU - AAUP/CSU Collective Bargaining agreement for funding
Phil Ender - United States Paddle Tennis Association
Merle Ellis - Knight Ridder Newspapers for help with festival foods
Richard Hinrichsen - The Shad Foundation - for shad information
Mary Knaack - Wings N' Curls, Hollywood, FL - diffusion of Buffalo wings.
Jim and Kathy Reilly of R.J. Reilly Co., Brewster, NY - for locations of platform tennis courts
Barb Thompson, Gallinger Real Estate/Better Homes&Gardens - permission to use housetype photographs
Dan Tasman - Buffalo English
Beverly Mitzel - How to Talk Pittsburgh
Phil Ender - US Paddle Tennis Association - information on the origins and diffusion of paddle and platform tennis.
Dan Jordan, Law library Touro School of Law - the Hot Dog in New York
Brian Moss, New York Daily News - the hot dog in New York
Vivian Treml, Seymour, WI, Seymour as the home of the hamburger
Ann Wesby, The Hamburger Hall of Fame, Seymour, WI
Ann Wizniuk, Archivist, MacDonalds Corporation, WI
Jeanette Schmelzer, Hamburg, NY, Chamber of Commerce, Hamburg as the home of the hamburger