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Articles by Joann Cantrell
The Making of the Mafia
There’s a scene in season one of “the Sopranos” when teen daughter Meadow asks, “Who invented the Mafia?” The question leaves Tony to consider how to respond with a mouthful of mu shu pork. That she then names those five New York City families with ease exemplifies the way La Cosa Nostra has become ingrained in our cultural history. Writer and FBI intelligence analyst Paul N.
The Allman Brothers Band - and Me
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.
The Rebellious Spirits Still Haunting Pittsburgh
Some historical events seem so fantastical that they sound like myths when retold, while others are so intrinsic to our nature that they could be today’s news, and actually help us understand our contemporaneous existence more deeply. After reading The Whiskey Rebellion: A Distilled History of an American Crisis by Brady J. Crytzer, I would argue that to understand Pittsburgh is to understand the Whiskey Rebellion, and to understand the Whiskey Rebellion is to understand America.
The Allman Brothers Band – and Me - Pittsburgh Quarterly
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.
Donora Death Fog: Clean Air and the Tragedy of a Pennsylvania Mill Town
Home › Article › Donora Death Fog: Clean Air and the Tragedy of a Pennsylvania Mill Town 75 years after Donora’s great inversion Donora Death Fog: Clean Air and the Tragedy of a Pennsylvania Mill Town by Andy McPhee University of Pittsburgh Press, $24.95.
Pittsburgh's Orphans and Orphanages
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.
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