Jan Elizabeth Watson

The road may go on forever, but it began in my brother’s bedroom on Inverness Avenue, where he handed me a copy of the Allman Brothers Band’s Eat A Peach and told me to listen to it, when I was in seventh grade. I put on some headphones, lay down on the yellow shag carpet, dropped the needle and got swept away by both the music and the gatefold’s psychedelic artwork.

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The Home: One of Pittsburgh’s first charities, the Episcopal Church Home on the corner of Penn Avenue and 40th Street in Lawrenceville (now Canterbury Place), opened its doors and provided care for elderly women and the growing population of Civil War orphans in the 1880s. July 17, 2023 For as long as I can remember, every time my grandmother spoke of her childhood, it made me sad.