Richard Peterson

1 week ago | pittsburghquarterly.com | Samuel Hazo |Richard Peterson |Barbara Eichenlaub |John Beale

To celebrate the beginning of our 20th year, we’ve set out to catalogue the contributions that Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania have made to the world. The list has grown and grown, and despite our best efforts, we know we’ll leave out key contributors. I think you’ll find that this small city at the confluence of three rivers has played an astonishingly outsized role in the creation of this country and the world we inhabit.

2 weeks ago | pittsburghquarterly.com | Samuel Hazo |Richard Peterson |Barbara Eichenlaub |John Beale

To celebrate the beginning of our 20th year, we’ve set out to catalogue the contributions that Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania have made to the world. The list has grown and grown, and despite our best efforts, we know we’ll leave out key contributors. I think you’ll find that this small city at the confluence of three rivers has played an astonishingly outsized role in the creation of this country and the world we inhabit.

1 month ago | pittsburghquarterly.com | Charlie Stewart |Richard Peterson |Brian O'Neill |Bill Christine

Mention the game of squash and it will likely conjure a traditional image of men in whites, whacking a hard, hollow ball off the walls of an enclosed court in the rarefied confines of a private club, prep school or eastern college. The indoor game with the long-necked racquet and dark rubber ball hasn’t always been that way, though. Its origins derive from a similar game called “rackets,” a descendent of tennis played in the prisons of London in the early 19th century.

2 months ago | pittsburghquarterly.com | Richard Peterson |Brian O'Neill |Bill Christine |Fred Shaw

A. G. Spalding once claimed that baseball likely began with the simple act of a boy tossing a ball into the air. The poet Donald Hall, who wrote a book about Pirates maverick pitcher Dock Ellis saw this simple act evolving into “sons playing catch with fathers” and eventually into a game “on a diamond that encloses what we are.”Baseball has a way of bringing out our best by linking us together.

Sep 25, 2024 | pittsburghquarterly.com | Julia Fraser |Richard Peterson |Paul McNulty |Paul J. Mcnulty

Editor’s note: We thank the top leaders of this region’s universities for penning a response to the following question: Given continuing enrollment declines and our civic need to attract and keep young people, is it desirable to significantly build on fledgling programs to get students off campus and engage them in this region’s amenities, thus building our College Town dynamic as well as a stronger long-term connection with our area?