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Notable Sewickley
Aug 23, 20237 min read
The Bicycle Craze in Sewickley
Signals March, 2007 The following appeared in Franklin Taylor Nevin’s The Village of Sewickley (The Sewickley Print-Shop, Inc., 1929). It...
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Aug 23, 20235 min read
A Cross-Country Flight in 1931
by Theodora Locke Signals, February 2007 This charming article by Theodora Locke from a February 1931 Pittsburgh newspaper is entitled...
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Aug 23, 20237 min read
Looking Back : Little Miss Lucy Was Cool in a Clutch
by B.G. Shields Signals, April 2007 Some little old ladies are laden with charm, and Lucy Eliza Haworth of “Mosscroft” was one of them. I...
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Aug 23, 20236 min read
History of the Samuel Adams House, 940 Beaver Street, Sewickley, PA
by Mary Beth Pastorius Signals, October 2007 The house was built for Samuel Adams, a native of Ireland, and his wife Jennie Arrott Adams...
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Aug 23, 20233 min read
Lest we forget...
Signals, May 2007 On May 28, Sewickley Valley will remember those who served and died in our nation’s wars. Few communities can equal the...
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Aug 23, 20236 min read
Madame Shoumatoff & the Unfinished Portrait of FDR
Signals, November 2007 In 1937, Elizabeth Shoumatoff, already famous for her celebrity portraits, met a Mrs. Lucy Rutherford, who had...
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Aug 23, 20235 min read
Recording the Weather in 19th Century Pennsylvania: The Beaver County Barometer
Signals, February 2008 A Presentation by Robert Clendennen Held: Wednesday, February 20, 2008, at 7:30 p.m. Old Sewickley Post Office...
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Aug 23, 20237 min read
The Spalding Enigma: Sewickley Connections to the Early History of Mormonism
Signals, March 2008 An illustrated lecture by Arthur Vanick Held: Wednesday, March 26 7:30 p.m. at the Old Sewickley Post Office In The...
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Aug 23, 20235 min read
The Changing Climate
[as predicted by Capt. Fred Way in 1956!] Signals, September 2008 The following, copied from Captain Fred Way’s remarks in his Inland...
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Aug 23, 20239 min read
Sewickley, Earthquakes & Capt. Fred Way
Signals, May 2008 Earthquakes in the Midwest have been in the news recently. Remember the 5.2 magnitude temblor on Friday, April 18,...
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Aug 21, 20238 min read
Col. James M. Schoonmaker
Signals, November 2008 Civil War Hero, Coal and Coke Operator, Banker and Railroad Executive an illustrated lecture by Frank Kurtik Held:...
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Aug 21, 20235 min read
Pittsburgh 1758-1890: The Industrial Gateway to the West
Signals, October 2008 A Postal History of the Pittsburgh Post Off This exhibition, which appeared in September at a national philatelic...
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Aug 21, 20238 min read
The Kaiser, Copperheads & a Confrontation
Signals, February 2009 (From Sewickley Valley Stern Marks, an unpublished manuscript by Frederick Way, Jr., in the Sewickley Valley...
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Aug 21, 20239 min read
Arthur Nevin’s Diary, June & July 1903
Signals, April 2009 This red leather diary measures 7’’ x 8.25” and is inscribed in Nevin’s hand, “Arthur Nevin, Vine Acre, March 1903.”...
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Aug 21, 20235 min read
Arthur Nevin’s Indian Opera
Signals, March 2009 "When another member of a musical family begins to bud in the springtime of his career, the public eye turns on him...
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Aug 21, 202316 min read
Arthur Nevin’s Diary, June & July 1903
Signals, May 2009 This is a continuation (see the March and April issues of Signals) of Arthur Nevin’s diary, written during his stay...
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Aug 21, 20233 min read
Arthur Nevin & Walter McClintock, cont.
Signals, September 2009 You will remember that the last three issues of Signals featured the story of Arthur Nevin’s Indian opera,...
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