In a distant corner of PittsburghÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ sprawling Allegheny Cemetery, you have to march up a steep hillside to find the grave of Josh Gibson.
ItÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ a flat stone, set in the ground, and has GibsonÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ game engraved on it, his dates of birth and death and the words “Legendary Baseball ...
Cheers: Thanks to his job as a school supervisor in the communities within proximity to Avella, Alvin Dinsmore White was able to compile valuable information about people and families in the region. White himself died in 1994, just a few months before his 100th birthday, but his legacy ...
The first Memorial Day was commemorated on May 30, 1868, just a little more than three years after the end of the Civil War. The scars left by the war still ran deep – between the Union and the Confederate states, 620,000 combatants lost their lives. In the early 1860s, that was a full 2% ...