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The Greek’s

January 5, 2025

Steelworkers fondly remembered how, each dawn, The Greek shuttled his day-old unsliced Italian loaves, the not-quite-fresh apple and peach pies,...

Wheelbarrow Races

November 27, 2019

For all the grimness and dehumanizing machinery, the fire, smoke and brimstone that filled J&L’s Four Shop, joy blossomed among...

Coke Oven Peaches

November 21, 2019

Cloudless blue covers meadowland, the river and hills. Southward from Hazelwood Avenue’s railroad tracks, the land slopes down to the...

The Tap

July 24, 2016

The Universe resounds with the joyful cry, I am. –Scriabin Tap:  to pierce in order to draw off liquid … to...

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Sandra Gould Ford

Sandra Gould Ford is an author, educator and former steelworker who presents arts experiences to encourage, refresh, enrich creative thinking and inspire. She belongs to the Author’s Guild and Science Fiction Writers of America and is a former member of the American Society of Media Photographers. For more information, visit her web site: SandraGouldFord.com.

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Steel Genesis shares powerful stories and rare images from Pittsburgh’s historic J&L Steel mill, where iron was forged and lives were shaped. Through personal reflections and visual archives, the site explores human mettle, industrial heritage, and the rebirth of a vanished world.