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  • Pithole, Pennsylvania, 1895

Uncovering America’s First Oil Landscape

In Pennsylvania’s Oil Creek Valley, the messy legacy of the country’s first petroleum boom.

Jake Maynard2022-06-22T13:44:51-04:00June 7, 2022|
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  • Railroad Strike 1

The Great Railroad Strike in Pittsburgh

Excerpted from "An Alternative History of Pittsburgh."

Ed Simon2021-06-03T10:54:19-04:00April 12, 2021|
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  • Kinzua Bridge - Pennsylvania

These Trespasses

"All over McKean County, we claimed the unwanted spaces that adults had left behind."

Jake Maynard2020-08-27T13:48:34-04:00August 7, 2020|
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  • Republic Steel - Postcard

Not Another Working-Class Youngstown Story

An excerpt from "Car Bombs to Cookie Tables: The Youngstown Anthology 2nd Edition."

Henry J. Gomez2020-08-27T13:51:33-04:00June 2, 2020|
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  • Vanka Mural 1

The Restoration of Maxo Vanka’s Working-Class, Immigrant Murals

On the walls of a Pittsburgh-area church, twenty-five scenes of God, war, justice, family.

Margaret Shakespeare2020-08-27T13:53:29-04:00May 15, 2020|
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  • Kerr - Mt. Jewett

Loiterers

A requiem for the small-town "hang-arounds."

Jake Maynard2020-04-01T15:59:39-04:00February 28, 2020|
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