Sunday, December 2, 2018

Ode to PGH

Oh, Pittsburgh!

You continue to delight me. You are so unassuming, and so pleasant. When the department store anchoring your nascent waterfront destination shopping district closes, you open a maker's market full of cool, local, handmade stuff. Parking for your downtown Christmas Market is cheap and so convenient to the stalls loaded with authentic, traditional items imported from Europe.

One merry block over the skating and holiday decorations of the PPG Plaza twinkle day and night. And just inside the towering glass castle of No. 1 PPG Place, the Wintergarden Atrium has been transformed to a gingerbread neighborhood of over 400 houses, churches, schools, and stadiums made by real people, and children play carols on the grand piano for the assembled crowd.

And your bridges! Soaring, beautiful, and functional! They span your rivers and and link your ridges with pride. No longer are you an isolated, frontier boom town built on coal, steel, and grit, or an anonymous blue collar city on the threshold of middle America.

Today your history and culture are open to all who are willing to go west on the turnpike, and oh! How much you have to offer to any who make the trip!


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