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the common association of the city’s professional sports teams with its blue-collar industrial past illustrates a white nostalgic perspective that excludes the voices of many who labored in the mines and mills and played on local fields

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and it also offers a concise explanation for some of the local

Near Woods: A Year in an Allegheny Forest Tin Sign the common association of theWe experience, learn about, and enjoy nature throughout our lifetimes in woods close to home. In the spirit of Walden, author Kevin Patrick spent a year connecting with White's Woods, a 500 acre tract of Allegheny forest adjacent to his home in Indiana, Pennsylvania. He captured in prose and photographs the four seasons of this near woods paradise, weaving natural history with human experience to create a geography of place to stand for all similar