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Allegheny Valley: Its Industry and Its Railroads

Join us for the second lecture of our Fall 2017 Series Keneth Kobus, author on Steel and Railroad History, will present “Allegheny Valley, Its Industry and Its Railroads” Ken Kobus is author of the 2015 book “City of Steel: How Pittsburgh Became the World’s Steelmaking Capital During the Carnegie Era“. More about Ken Kolbus’s research into Pittsburgh steel industry: Bethel Park writer Kobus lives and breathes Pittsburgh’s steel industry – Tribune Review, May 14, 2015 Men of Steel: Three Generations of Mill Workers NPR’s Storycorps, September 1, 2006 All Lectures are Free and Open to the Public… Read the rest

East Liberty History & Upcoming Lectures on George Washington & Frederick Scheibler, Jr.

The East Liberty Valley Historic Society is a nonprofit that exists to document and share the history of the East Liberty neighborhood and surrounding areas. East Liberty is a particularly interesting area of Pittsburgh when it comes to development as it has many buildings from the time East Liberty became a fashionable suburb for some of Pittsburgh’s wealthiest families who were looking to escape the congestion of Downtown Pittsburgh in the 1850s. East Liberty is also the site of a massive Urban Renewal project in the 1950s. The East Liberty Valley Historic Society has been documenting and sharing information about… Read the rest

Building Your Family Tree – History Center to offer FREE Workshops in on Researching African American and Jewish Family Histories

Nowadays we can log on to ye olde Facebooks and keep tabs on our cousin and in many families Grandma and Grandpa are using the Facebooks to keep in touch.  But if you want to find out about previous generations – Facebook doesn’t offer much.  Just the word Family Tree brings back memories of my mom helping me we a 2nd grad project.  She was determined to fill that piece of posterboard out correctly – probably because there was no other written location of the family history. The Heinz History center is kicking off a new series of events this… Read the rest

The Nina, The Pinta Make a Pilgrimage to Pittsburgh

Image by matneym via Flickr Last week the Nina and the Pinta sailed into Pittsburgh, well okay not the original ships that Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue with but the reproductions of The Nina and The Pinta. The two ships are docked next to Heinz field until November 15, 2009. The website for the ships is – http://www.thenina.com/ – but it doesn’t have any info about their stop in Pittsburgh. From what I have read on the internet the ships are open for tours daily from 9am – 4pm daily. I think the tickets are $7.… Read the rest

Some Park and Parking History & Friday is Park(ing) Day in PittsburghParking

Image by JessyeAnne via Flickr This is a neat event that is another creative way to think about our city, transit and how cars fit into the urban landscape.   It fits well into the conversation we have been having about if you need a car in Pittsburgh on the post about Zipcar. Last year, I posted about Parking Day 2008 and recieved this interesting comment that I wanted to share – which puts some historical perspective of how cars have fit into Pittsburgh over the past centruy or so. I have a nineteenth century “History of Pittsburg” which lists the… Read the rest

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