The Soul of Pittsburgh: Essays on Life, Community and History

“They are my people and this is my town and it does my heart good just to be here.” - Art Rooney Sr.

Pittsburgh contains multitudes. The city bestows a character of contradiction, love of place and strength of community on anyone lucky to be born and raised there. A town whose rivers were once lined with belching steel mills but also hosted the world’s first major modern art exhibition is not easily defined. Fr...