Walter Mayer, Buffalo History Museum's senior director of collections is retiring this Friday after more than 30 years at the museum. He shares two of the more unusual artifacts among the thousands he has been in charge of managing for the last three decades.
Walter Mayer retired after spending over 30 years overseeing the Buffalo Museum of History's collection of up to 100,000 artifacts. Among them: A Bell rocket engine and the gun Leon Czolgosz used to assassinate President William McKinley.