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  • A Doorknob in Allegheny West

    2013-08-13-Allegtheny-West-Doorknob-01A special treat for hardware fans.

     

    August 16, 2013
  • Yarn-Bombing the Andy Warhol Bridge

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    The Seventh Street or Andy Warhol Bridge is covered with knitting—supposedly the biggest “yarn-bombing” project in history. If terrorism were always so cheerful, old Pa Pitt would be completely in favor of it.

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    As a secret fan of De Stijl, old Pa Pitt was particularly taken with this piece.

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    The “Knit the Bridge” project has generated quite a bit of news coverage across the country:

    Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

    Time

    Associated Press (via the Washington Post)

    The Huffington Post

    Fox News

    August 13, 2013
  • Silvery Checkerspot (Chlosyne nycteis)

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    A Silvery Checkerspot butterfly (Chlosyne nycteis) rests on a leaf of Lemon Balm (Melissa officinalis) in Beechview.

    August 12, 2013
  • Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta)

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    A Red Admiral butterfly (Vanessa atalanta) visits a Butterfly Bush (Buddleja davidii) in Beechview.

    August 12, 2013
  • Carrick from the South Side Cemetery

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    In many city neighborhoods you’ll find a cemetery or two much older than the neighborhood itself. Cemeteries were established in the countryside outside the city; the city grew to engulf them, but they often remain little oases of rural stillness in the urban bustle. The South Side Cemetery has graves going back well before the Civil War, when Carrick was farmland and wilderness, and the hilly location gives us spectacular views in all directions. The contrast between the dense and cluttered urban neighborhood and the calm peace of the cemetery seems as though it ought to be a metaphor for something.

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    August 12, 2013
  • An Angel in Carrick

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    An angel keeps watch over a cemetery in Carrick.

    August 11, 2013
  • Ewart Building

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    The Ewart Building on Liberty Avenue was built in 1891, shortly after Richardson’s courthouse was finished—one of many Romanesque buildings that followed Richardson’s masterpiece in Pittsburgh.

    August 6, 2013
  • Schiller Glocke Gesang und Turn Verein

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    On the whole, the South Side Flats were East European and the Slopes were German. But a large neighborhood like the Flats has room for diverse microneighborhoods, and we find this “Schiller’s Bell Singing and Athletic Society” on Jane Street. The building is now turned to other uses, but the inscription remains. Pittsburgh and Allegheny used to be full of German singing societies; the Teutonia Männerchor in Dutchtown is the most prominent remnant.

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    August 6, 2013
  • Rhodes Brothers Concrete

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    Not quite as artistic as the Wadsworth plates, Rhodes Brothers  concrete plates are still attractive designs. This one was set in a driveway in Friendship.

    August 3, 2013
  • Canada Goose

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    A Canada goose (Branta canadensis) floats serenely in a lake in North Park.

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    July 26, 2013
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