Bethlehem Fortune, Bethlehem Elegy
The center didn’t hold. Things fell apart. For the second time in its history, a faith was betrayed and the gates of Eden were soldered shut.
The center didn’t hold. Things fell apart. For the second time in its history, a faith was betrayed and the gates of Eden were soldered shut.
A cut through the layers of America past and present in the historic steel town of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
McKeesport, Pennsylvania has been through two Great Depressions. Its recovery from the first holds lessons for today.
Before my junior year of college, in 1972, I worked at the manufacturing plant where my father was a foreman. It was an education.