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The Pittsburgh Cycle - In 2005, August Wilson completed a ten-play cycle, nine of which are set in Pittsburgh, chronicling the African-American experience in the 20th century. These are: 1900s - Gem of the Ocean (2003) 1910s - Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1984) 1920s - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1982) - set in Chicago
After Pittsburgh couple Henry Reese and Diane Samuels heard Salman Rushdie mention the more-than-50-city International Cities of Refuge Networking in Europe, they sought and received approval to create a new node in their own city. [10] [3] [11] The couple bought a former drug house on Sampsonia Way in Pittsburgh's North Side. [12]
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Hiding Place is a novel by the American writer John Edgar Wideman set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during the 1970s. It was first published in 1981 by Avon Books in New York, and subsequently in London by Allison & Busby in 1984. The novel tells the story of Tommy, a character who first appeared in Wideman's short-story collection Damballah.
Founded in 1984 by Duquesne University philosophy professor Edward Gelblum and Frank Carroll as City Books & Antiques, City Books was re-branded solely as a bookstore in 1987. Located on Pittsburgh's South Side, the shop began as one floor, later expanding to two floors in the 1990s with the addition of a coffee bar on the second floor. [6]
Randy Gilson talking to visitors at Randyland. Randy Gilson was born in Homestead, Pennsylvania.Early in life he suffered from homelessness and poverty. He moved to Pittsburgh's Northside in 1982, where he was a community activist, planting over 800 street gardens and 50 vegetable gardens. [11]
Deland is known principally for the novel John Ward, Preacher (1888), an indictment of Calvinism, which became a best-seller. [10] Her 'Old Chester' books, based on her early memories of the Pittsburgh communities where she grew up — including Maple Grove and Manchester — were also popular.
"Buntline" is the nautical term for a rope that attaches to the bottom of a square sail. [4] Daguerreotype of Buntline. In 1841, Buntline's father, Levi Carroll Judson, his wife, and his daughter moved to Pittsburgh, where Levi set up a law practice and his wife and daughter Irene opened a select school in the basement of the First Baptist Church.