A fireball crossed six states on December 9, 1965, and a search party combed the Westmoreland County woods. Here is what the record shows, what grew up later, and what is still disputed.

Pittsburgh’s favorite meeting spot grew out of a South Side tailor shop. Here is how the Kaufmann’s clock got its corner, and what became of the Big Store behind it.

Before the Civic Arena’s roof opened to the skyline in 1961, about 95 acres of the Lower Hill District were cleared. Here is what stood there, who left, and what the records can and can’t prove.

Squirrel Hill Pittsburgh sits on the eastern edge of the city where the land rises above Schenley Park and the great university campuses of Oakland, a neighborhood of tree-lined streets, brick rowhouses, and a commercial district on Murray and Forbes avenues that locals call “upstreet.” It is the traditional center of Pittsburgh’s Jewish community, and…

Mary Lou Williams Pittsburgh origins begin with a child sitting at a piano in East Liberty who could play anything she heard before she was old enough to read music. She was born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 8, 1910, but her family moved to Pittsburgh when she was young, and it…

Billy Strayhorn Pittsburgh origins are the beginning of one of the most remarkable stories in the history of American music, and almost nobody outside of jazz circles knows it. The song “Take the A Train” is one of the most recognizable pieces of music the twentieth century produced. It served for decades as the signature…