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What Happened to Residents’ Health Long After the Donora Death Fog?
“Our scientists tell us that the Donora episode was a rare phenomenon. We hope and pray it will never recur. This study by the Public Health Service into the Donora episode, the most exhaustive ever made on a problem in air pollution, is a step toward positive assurance that such a thing will not happen…
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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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Incident at the Marshall House
He was either a traitorous villain or a martyr for the cause, depending on which side of the Mason-Dixon line your ancestors lived. It was 1860, and a man named James W. Jackson, a rabid secessionist, was managing the Marshall House, a hotel that once stood on the corner of King and Pitt Streets in…
