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Pittsburgh Lives: Men and Women Who Shaped Our City
Pittsburgh Lives Men and Women Who Shaped Our City Author:Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A city's identity is a composite of the lives lived in its confines. Its uniqueness is derived from the people who built the landmarks, who made the laws, who broke the rules, and who quietly made their way through life. Pittsburgh Lives celebrates the famous, the infamous, the noteworthy, the notorious, and the largely unrecognized men and ... more »women who sculpted Pittsburgh's character. Pittsburgh Lives remembers Archbishop Canevin, Jimmy Stewart, and activist Molly Yard. It honors African American trailblazer Willie Thrower and taps along with Gene Kelly. Through their stories and more, Pittsburgh Lives tells the tale of 21st-century Pittsburgh itself. Charming, surprising, inspirational, and historical, Pittsburgh Lives presents elegant narratives first told on the obituary pages of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Among them were faces we saw every day and thought we knew well enough until their obituaries gave us a final, fuller look.« less