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1 month ago | 
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.
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2 months ago | 
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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
pittsburghquarterly.com | Mark Schwartz |Doug Heuck
Home › Article › Anderson, O’Brien, Cohon, Roddey, Miller, O’Reilly, Johnson, Zockoll, Ostrowski, Wecht, D’Andrea, Szabo, Kopf Jr. Barbara Anderson, 89Her career as an award-winning costume designer, professor and associate dean of Carnegie Mellon’s College of Fine Arts spanned more than 45 years.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
pittsburghquarterly.com | Jeff Sewald |Mark Schwartz |Evan Pattak |Doug Heuck
Editor’s note: We invited 13 regional leaders to give their thoughts on how to revitalize and reinvigorate Downtown Pittsburgh. Despite numerous emails back and forth with the communications staff of Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey from March 15 to April 20, the Mayor did not offer his thoughts on Downtown Pittsburgh. The responses of 12 other leaders follow.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
pittsburghquarterly.com | Doug Heuck
One weeknight in early April, i returned home after a tiring day packed with meetings. I don’t usually drink during the week, but as I sat down with the day’s mail, I eyed a bottle of Malbec on the kitchen counter. I sighed and thought “Nope, too much work tonight.” I grabbed the mail, noticing an unusual white envelope with eight colorful stamps, each distinct and unfamiliar. I opened it and recognized the writer’s name; I had typed in his subscription every two years for the last 18.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
pittsburghquarterly.com | Mark Davis |Jeff Sewald |Doug Heuck |Lori Jakiela
Home › Article › An Awkward Introduction to Cyril Wecht Cyril Wecht’s recent death took me back decades to summer of 1978 and Carnegie Mellon University’s tennis courts. Two white guys dressed in tennis whites had finished playing and sat on the grass. In my early twenties and in law school, I was one of them.
