Art: You Haven’t Been Everywhere Until You’ve Been to Buffalo

The Everywhere Project is a “collaborative design project that pays tribute to the classic folk song, ‘I’ve Been Everywhere’” most famously sung by Johnny Cash. Careful effort was put into the vintage luggage tag representing Buffalo. The researchers understood the name of the city was not likely derived from the animal. Beau Fleuve is French for “beautiful river” but this is also an unlikely origin of the mysterious Buffalo name.

The rest of the ticket is peppered with various other Buffalonian identities with the Queen City spanning the entirety of card as the most commonly referenced nickname. Buffalo’s future American president Millard Fillmore popularized the term when he saw Buffalo as the second most powerful city on the Great Lakes after Chicago. Other popular nicknames include the City of Good Neighbors for Buffalo’s friendly and helpful people; the Nickel City for the same-named animal found on the American five cent coin; and the City of Light for being one of the first cities in the world to power electricity through modern AC methods.