Making Industrial Pittsburgh Modern by Edward K. Muller and Joel A. Tarr

Posted by on Feb 17, 2021 in | Comments Off on Making Industrial Pittsburgh Modern by Edward K. Muller and Joel A. Tarr Making Industrial Pittsburgh Modern Environment, Landscape, Transportation, Energy, and Planning by Edward K. Muller and Joel A. Tarr University of Pittsburgh Press, 504 pp., hardcover $40 Discussions of “modern” Pittsburgh often begin and end with the Renaissance, the rightfully lauded postwar effort to spruce up the city’s tarnished image and clear its smoky skies. But there is so much more to...
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Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter

Posted by on Jun 8, 2020 in | Comments Off on Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter Topics in the Winter 2020 Newsletter: Former State Senator Kury Named Director Emeritus of PHF Board PHF Partners with Pennsylvania Commission for the United States Semiquincentennial Preserve Pennsylvania’s History  ...
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Evolution of a Preservation Agency: Centre County’s Historic Registration Project

Posted by on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off on Evolution of a Preservation Agency: Centre County’s Historic Registration Project The commemoration of America’s Bicentennial gave birth to numerous community-minded pursuits during its nationwide celebra­tion. Although many of these special endeavors were shelved when the year was over, the administrators of one at least. the Historic Registration Project in Centre County. realized that their work had just begun. Now, four years later, this unique organization is still...
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Breaking Nature’s Silence: Pennsylvania’s Rachel Carson

Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Breaking Nature’s Silence: Pennsylvania’s Rachel Carson She was belittled as an anti-humanitarian crank, a priestess of nature, and a hysterical woman. The director of the New Jersey Department of Agriculture believed she in­spired a “vociferous, misin­formed group of nature­-balancing, organic gardening, bird-loving, unreasonable citizenry.” An official of the Federal Pest Control Review Board, ridiculing her concern about genetic...
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