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What Happened to Residents’ Health Long After the Donora Death Fog?
The Donora Death Fog might have killed 21 during it, but many more died from it years later.
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From Boom to Bust: What Happened to Little Webster?
What happened to this lovely vacation town when the Zinc Works opened in 1915?
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What Happens to Residents’ Health When a Coke Plant Closes?
The closure of Shenango Coke Works led directly to improved health for area residents.
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When Writers Can’t Write
Lots of things going on in the McPhee household lately, so much so that I haven’t been able to write for a few months, and I absolutely hate it. I feel unmoored on a lake during a storm. I can see land all around me, but I’ll be damned if I can get there. I…
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One Woman’s Story of the Deadly Smog
Edie Jericho describes her recollections of the Donora death fog.
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What That “It’s My New Book” Feel Feels Like
Seeing and feeling your newly printed book isn’t the same as saving someone’s life, but it’s close.
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Irish Surgeon Becomes America’s Leading Body Snatcher
Oh, the joys of surgery. Trepanation expert Samuel Clossy brought his body snatching ways to America, ways that would one day sparkthe Doctor’s Riot of 1788.
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Feuding Founders of First US Medical School
The University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine stands today as a testament to quality medical care. Its earliest years, though, were fraught with conflict between its two brilliant founders.
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Incident at the Marshall House
The first Union officer killed in the Civil War was a friend of Lincoln and met his end taking down a Confederate flag.
