The doomed Whiskey Rebellion, the Great Fire that destroyed a third of the City in 1845 and Lincoln\'s speech urging residents to shun talk of secession--all have made the pages of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and its predecessors.
This collection of his "Eyewitness" columns draws on next-day stories to tell the History of the city, from President Coolidge\'s almost-silent visit in 1927 t.
Since 1786, the paper has covered local events, and reporter Len Barcousky is a part of this long tradition.
The doomed Whiskey Rebellion, the Great Fire that destroyed a third of the City in 1845 and Lincoln\'s speech urging residents to shun talk of secession--all have made the pages of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and its predecessors
