Stories of Metal & Mettle

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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...

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.