For all the grimness and dehumanizing machinery, the fire, smoke and brimstone that filled J&L’s Four Shop, joy blossomed among the massive, brick and iron furnaces that  transformed molten iron […]

Cloudless blue covers meadowland, the river and hills. Southward from Hazelwood Avenue’s railroad tracks, the land slopes down to the Monongahela River. When I gaze west, I marvel that the […]

The Universe resounds with the joyful cry, I am. –Scriabin Tap:  to pierce in order to draw off liquid … to draw (liquid) from a vessel or container  –The American Heritage […]