Doug Heuck

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An Opportunity for Each of Us

3 weeks ago | pittsburghquarterly.com | Doug Heuck

It’s been 23 years since the saga of the discarded toilet. I lived in Squirrel Hill then, and each day as I drove Downtown to work at the Post-Gazette, I followed the same path as thousands of other motorists, coming through Oakland, exiting the Boulevard of the Allies down and to the right via a ramp connecting to the parkway Downtown. Just at the merger of that ramp and the parkway, where traffic slows, there sat a discarded toilet in plain view. You couldn’t miss it.
Lange, Maher, Garber, Linaberger, Bowers, Burnett, Wettick, Effort, Gaines, Veale, Rayvid, Blank

1 month ago | pittsburghquarterly.com | Mark Schwartz |Doug Heuck

Mike Lange, 76He spent 46 seasons as the play-by-play voice of the Pittsburgh Penguins, creating some of the most memorable sayings in the process. “It’s a hockey night in Pittsburgh!” he would announce during a career that chronicled Mario Lemieux, Sid Crosby and the history of the franchise in Pittsburgh. A Hockey Hall of Famer known for his quirky sense of humor, he covered five Stanley Cup championships and injected every game with phrases that became synonymous with hockey in Pittsburgh.
My PTSD (“Post Traumatic Suit Disorder”) - Pittsburgh Quarterly

1 month ago | pittsburghquarterly.com | Mark Schwartz |Doug Heuck |Paul O'Neill Jr. |Geoff Webster

Reading Clayton Touter’s recent story in Pittsburgh Quarterly — “Buying A Suit.
Seeking a Safe, Welcoming and Thriving Region

2 months ago | pittsburghquarterly.com | Doug Heuck |Sandee Gertz |Paul O'Neill Jr. |Pete Geissler

It was a snowy day in Pittsburgh in 2024 when a City truck slid into a guardrail. No one was hurt, but it caused risk and damaged the vehicle. Asking “why” yielded a typical answer, “duh, it was icy.” But Mayor Ed Gainey had promised to be serious about a safe, welcoming and thriving city. Part of that promise was to make sure City workers don’t get hurt. So, the process that the Mayor and his team created to eliminate safety incidents continued.
Magnificence Along the Clarion

Mar 25, 2025 | pittsburghquarterly.com | Thomas Saunders |Daryln Brewer Hoffstot |Doug Heuck |Joe Grant

A beautiful place to hike and explore in northwest Pennsylvania is Dutch Hill Forest, along the Clarion River in Heath Township, Jefferson County. The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy has protected more than 32,000 acres along the Clarion River, which was highly polluted decades ago but is now largely restored and a federally designated Wild and Scenic River.
My Modest, Idiosyncratic Love of City Living

Jan 28, 2025 | pittsburghquarterly.com | Doug Heuck |Samuel Hazo |Mark Schwartz |Peter Geissler

AN ENTREPRENEUR FINDS HIS NICHEI was lunching with my accountant while examining my assets when he suggested that I buy an office instead of renting. I was living and working at the time in a Downtown high-rise apartment and, as he said, “enriching the landlord, not you.” Soon after, I accidentally noticed an ad for a townhouse on the North Shore and sauntered across the Sixth Street Bridge (now Clemente) to an open house and bought it on the spot.
Explore a Winter Hike on the Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail

Jan 22, 2025 | pittsburghquarterly.com | Thomas Saunders |Daryln Brewer Hoffstot |Doug Heuck |Joe Grant

Home › Article › Explore a Winter Hike on the Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail One of our region’s great hikes is the Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail. It runs from the town of Ohiopyle on its southern end 70 miles northward to a vista above the Conemaugh River at its northern terminus. Used by through- and day-hikers and runners, it’s one of Pennsylvania’s most beautiful trails.
Boudreau, Thompson, Aston, Bozzone, Hall, McNulty, Kalaris, Pais, Chahine, Johnson, Holzer

Dec 3, 2024 | pittsburghquarterly.com | Mark Schwartz |Doug Heuck

Home › Article › Boudreau, Thompson, Aston, Bozzone, Hall, McNulty, Kalaris, Pais, Chahine, Johnson, Holzer Robert Boudreau, 97In 1957 he conducted his first concert on the banks of the Allegheny in a former coal barge called the Point Counterpoint I. That was the beginning of the American Wind Symphony, which Boudreau founded and led as music director for the next 60 years.
Letter from Philadelphia

Oct 1, 2024 | pittsburghquarterly.com | Mark Schwartz |Doug Heuck |Samuel Hazo |Ray Werner

Having moved across the state from Pittsburgh in 1986, I now wonder what prompts me to read each edition of the Pittsburgh Quarterly from cover to cover. Sure, I subscribe to other magazines. The New Yorker is often hit or miss. My location notwithstanding, I can’t relate to “The Main Line Times.” Reading “Philadelphia Magazine’ is akin to my attending a glitzy cocktail party that I was not invited to. So what is my attraction to Pittsburgh Quarterly?
Lessons from Last Place

Sep 24, 2024 | pittsburghquarterly.com | Doug Heuck

Sailing is a big part of the culture in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where I’ve spent 63 straight summers. And some might say that from an early age, I earned the dubious distinction of being a kind of “Jonah” of sailboat races. I’ve never seen myself as that ill-fated shipmate of yore, but the case could be made. My first race was as a toddler in one of the 290-mile Port Huron to Mackinac Races my Dad skippered. Why my parents took a 1-year-old on that race is something I can no longer ask them.