I took a baseball-inspired road trip in June 2024 to Cleveland, Toronto and Pittsburgh. My Pittsburgh History Lesson, Part 1 focused on the role of Fort Pitt in the 18th Century founding of Pittsburgh. This post focuses on what I learned about Pittsburgh’s history after 1800. The Heinz History Center has six floors spread over …
I took a baseball-inspired road trip in June 2024 to Cleveland, Toronto and Pittsburgh. Larry Harder suggested I visit the Fort Pitt Museum while in Pittsburgh and I subsequently added the Heinz History Center to my agenda because it was rated highly in TripAdvisor. When I arrived at the Fort Pitt Museum I was happy …
The Pittsburgh leg of my solo Cleveland-Toronto-Pittsburgh baseball sojourn in June 2024. Cleveland | Toronto Thursday, June 6 – Drive to Pittsburgh I got on the road by 9:30am for the 5 hour drive to Pittsburgh. I had tickets for the Dodgers game against the Pirates at 6:40pm and wanted to be at the park …
Covering activities from July – September, 2006. Betsy, Joe, Sara and Kristen made their first return east from Colorado just after July 4. To celebrate, and show off our Pfefferkorn house for Barb’s extended family of “Chinese” aunties and uncles — the old Fisher cohort of China hands — we hosted a brunch on Saturday, …
In 2006 we continued settling into our Pfefferkorn house, I was looking for new adventures after financial planning and Allie was in fifth grade at Glenelg Country School. Between Allie, Barb and I, we had some mutual fantasies about turning Allie into a TV star or model. Allie spent countless hours of her life watching …