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  • What That “It’s My New Book” Feel Feels Like

    What That “It’s My New Book” Feel Feels Like

    By

    Andy McPhee

    Donora Death Fog, Writing
    March 11, 2023

    Seeing and feeling your newly printed book isn’t the same as saving someone’s life, but it’s close.

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  • Meet the Heroic Docs of the Donora Smog Disaster of 1948

    Meet the Heroic Docs of the Donora Smog Disaster of 1948

    By

    Andy McPhee

    Donora Death Fog, Donora History
    January 10, 2022

    Get to know some of the physician-heroes of the Donora smog disaster of 1948.

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  • Meet the Toxicologist Who Nailed the Smelter Industry After the Donora Smog

    Meet the Toxicologist Who Nailed the Smelter Industry After the Donora Smog

    By

    Andy McPhee

    Donora Death Fog, Donora History, Donora Smog Event, Mary Amdur and Donora
    November 5, 2021

    Who was Mary Amdur, and how does she relate to the Donora smog disaster?

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  • Did US Steel Officials Know Dangers of Asbestos Used in Cement City?

    Did US Steel Officials Know Dangers of Asbestos Used in Cement City?

    By

    Andy McPhee

    Donora History
    August 29, 2021

    Why were asbestos shingles used in Center City? Didn’t US Steel know the dangers?

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  • The Unimaginable Grief of One Mon Valley Family in the early 1900s

    The Unimaginable Grief of One Mon Valley Family in the early 1900s

    By

    Andy McPhee

    Donora History
    May 11, 2021

    Howard and Iva Dail Hart suffered more than their share of grief working and living in the Mon Valley many years ago, when life was brutally difficult.

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  • How Thomas Edison’s Cement Contributed to Donora’s Storied History

    How Thomas Edison’s Cement Contributed to Donora’s Storied History

    By

    Andy McPhee

    Donora History
    January 3, 2021

    The Wizard of Menlo Park helped ease a housing crisis in Donora.

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  • What Donora’s Smog Plaque Gets Right … And Wrong

    What Donora’s Smog Plaque Gets Right … And Wrong

    By

    Andy McPhee

    Donora History, Donora Smog Event
    December 18, 2020

    A prominent bronze plaque at the southern entrance to Donora honors smog victims…and then some.

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  • No Strikes for Mr. Donner — The Battle of Virden

    No Strikes for Mr. Donner — The Battle of Virden

    By

    Andy McPhee

    Pertinent History, William Donner
    December 17, 2020

    This is the second of a three-part series covering devastating strikes of the 1890s, strikes that surely helped cement anti-unionism in Donora’s founder, William Donner.

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  • No Strikes for Mr. Donner — The Pullman Strike

    No Strikes for Mr. Donner — The Pullman Strike

    By

    Andy McPhee

    Pertinent History, William Donner
    December 10, 2020

    This is the second of a three-part series covering devastating strikes of the 1890s, strikes that surely helped…

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  • No Strikes for Mr. Donner — The Homestead Strike

    No Strikes for Mr. Donner — The Homestead Strike

    By

    Andy McPhee

    Pertinent History, William Donner
    December 3, 2020

    William Donner, the founder of Donora, never liked unions. He was a businessman seeking ever-increasing profits, and unions tended to cut into them. Donner had grown into his wealth during a time of…

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