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Mark Holan

Cleveland
As seen in: Taylor & Francis Online, Cleveland.com, Catholic News Service, History News Network, Arlington Catholic Herald, Catholic Review, Catholic Courier, FreshWater, Pittsburgh Quarterly, The Monitor and
Content Provider for cleveland.com. Married to Linda Madzia-Holan (owner of Studio Zia Hair & Nail Salon in Parma)
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Look at Your Fish: David McCullough’s History Matters

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By Richard Peterson, John G. Hennon, Mark Holan
| Pittsburgh Quarterly Verified
Historian and biographer David McCullough, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, said that his strength as a writer was his love of storytelling. Over his brilliant career, he wrote about remarkable events — the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and Panama Canal — and remarkable people — John Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, and Harry Truman. But, oddly enough, in 1992, when he sat down for The Paris Review interview, he opened with a fish story.
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The Horseless Carriage Comes to Pittsburgh

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By John G. Hennon, Mark Holan
| Pittsburgh Quarterly Verified
The weather in Pittsburgh was rather bleak during March 1896. Snow and sub-freezing temperatures were the norm. Nicer weather arrived on March 10, so two young men took that opportunity to test a remarkable new apparatus. Anyone who was on the streets of the East End that day caught a glimpse of the first automobile ever seen in the city.
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Elegy for an Irish American Catholic Family

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By Mark Holan, Jeff Dooley Verified, Maxwell King
| Pittsburgh Quarterly Verified
My mother died in late November at the age of 95. She was the last surviving member of her Irish American Catholic family. Her passing closed the century-long story of a Pittsburgh archetype, once more familiar, now a faded shade of green. Her parents emigrated from rural County Kerry, separately and single, shortly before Ireland’s 1919-1921 rebellion against British rule. Siblings and cousins preceded them to industrialized Pittsburgh, then the nation’s sixth largest Irish hub.
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