Cheers: The tunnels that are cut through mountains and hillsides and under rivers are marvels of modern engineering. And itÎÞëÊÓƵ™s easy to imagine how awed drivers must have been a century ago when they traveled through the Liberty Tunnels in their Model Ts when it opened to traffic in January ...
In a distant corner of PittsburghÎÞëÊÓƵ™s sprawling Allegheny Cemetery, you have to march up a steep hillside to find the grave of Josh Gibson. ItÎÞëÊÓƵ™s a flat stone, set in the ground, and has GibsonÎÞëÊÓƵ™s game engraved on it, his dates of birth and death and the words ÎÞëÊÓƵœLegendary Baseball ...
Cheers: Thanks to his job as a school supervisor in the communities within proximity to Avella, Alvin Dinsmore White was able to compile valuable information about people and families in the region. White himself died in 1994, just a few months before his 100th birthday, but his legacy ...
The first Memorial Day was commemorated on May 30, 1868, just a little more than three years after the end of the Civil War. The scars left by the war still ran deep ÎÞëÊÓƵ“ between the Union and the Confederate states, 620,000 combatants lost their lives. In the early 1860s, that was a full 2% ...
Cheers: Traffic was snarled for a little while in downtown Carnegie Monday, but it wasnÎÞëÊÓƵ™t a typical slowdown caused by an accident or construction. Instead, it was because about 20 coach buses carrying veterans to Washington, D.C., made a stop in the Allegheny County community so they could ...
Winding its way through Congress is legislation that would require the U.S. Postal Service to track crashes of vehicles carrying mail. The legislation, which carries the name Mail Traffic Deaths Reporting Act, and which passed the House on May 6, also would punish USPS contractors that fail to ...
