Doug Farley came to be the Director of the Cobblestone Museum by being open to new opportunities in life.  A part-time job he held while studying for his Electrical Engineering degree at the University of Buffalo led to him being co-owner of a local Supermarket.  The Civil War Sword he inherited led him to research his ancestry with the Niagara Historical Society, and that led to a 10-year stint on their Board of Directors. At the end of his term, they asked him to create the Erie Canal Discovery Center in Lockport. As Director he ran a regular “Erie Canal Discovery” column in the Medina Journal-Register, full of fascinating stories about the canal. His success in bringing the Canal Museum into being led to a similar request from Peoples, Inc to create The Museum of Disability History in Buffalo. After creating two new Museums from scratch, becoming Director of the Cobblestone Museum is a comparatively less stressful post-retirement job, taken out of love for Orleans County History.