Cam, Gianna, Eli, Ericka, Kingston, Lola, and Nate: fifth graders from various Pittsburgh neighborhoods telling their stories during 2021 Allegheny Center Alliance Church Summer Camp.

Amelia, Baiela, Joseph, Re'Lea, and Selah: fourth graders from various Pittsburgh neighborhoods telling their stories during 2021 Allegheny Center Alliance Church Summer Camp.

"So in my experience, it's also an overused label for black and brown children whose relationships have fallen apart, and instead of healing them, we blame them."

"how could I have asked him to do something to please me."

"despite all my training, and my time with kids, I had no idea what I was doing."

"How do we create community where it doesn't exist? We bemoan as a generation the loss of the village."

"There's so much struggle and injustice in the world that it literally overwhelms me."

"I don't like being so different from everybody else."

"All I want is to fit in, but I struggled to make friends."

"I take a moment to acknowledge that this might very well be the night I will meet my maker."

"None of the kids want to play with her. None of the parents want their kids playing with her. She's all alone by herself."

"And so life happened because her parents were addicts and so they moved around a lot. So by the time she was in middle school, she struggled with addiction"

"my struggle with understanding and coming to terms with white privilege."

"I don't worry about them being shot just because they were pulled over by the police."

"Because being silence is complicity in the system. And it allows white privilege and systemic racism to continue. "

William Gandy preserves & promotes North Side history.  He was born at Allegheny General Hospital, raised in Northview Heights, went to school at NVH, McNaugher, Perry & Community College on the Northside. He is the owner of Allegheny County Historic Gallery, formerly located at 433 East Ohio St., Pittsburgh. The gallery can now be visited online at https://northsidehistory.gallery/ or on various social media platforms.

During their 20 years long of friendship, Judith Harvey of South Hills and Bill Marks of Brighton Heights have been collecting and preserving history of Fineview (previously called Nunnery.) 

In this segment, they will be sharing their knowledge of "Nunnery Incline", which was similar to the famour Duquesne Incline we still have today, that connects the Federal Street to the Fineview neighborhood on the hill.

They are not done yet and are still looking for more artifacts. If you have some old photos, stories, and other artifacts, please let them know. You could reach Storyburgh and we will get you connected. Thank you!

'So, have you decided what you’re going to do about your living situation?’

And my husband are confused.
So we say, ‘What do you mean?’

She says, “Oh, you know, after they tear down your house.'”

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After having a nomadic lifestyle crisscrossing the world for years, Kelsey Grushecky decides to become a librarian. Why did Kelsey Grushecky do that? What prompted her to this 180 degree turn decision?

And enjoy listening to some of her experiences living in a different culture!

Who says that Pittsburgh is a boring city?

Listen to David’s story as he found some resemblance between his own childhood experience to an exciting, albeit illegal, activities that happened in this storied neighborhood in the 1930s.

David is a public historian and folklorist on a social history of numbers gambling in Pittsburgh.

Laura Zurowski is a Pittsburgh-based writer/photographer. In 2017, she started Mis.Steps: Our Missed Connections with Pittsburgh’s City Steps as a way to document and write about the city’s nearly 900 flights of public stairways.

She publishes her photos and stories every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday on Instagram and her blog. https://mis-steps.com/blog/

"Back in 2004, people were still saying that's so gay as an insult and using a homophobic slurs in casual conversation. To be out and gay then was a scary thing. But something told you to come out anyway."

"it felt good to have friends around you who knew who you were and loved you despite."

"What does the future hold? What does it have in store for us? Whether it be flying cars, or levitating houses? The future seems far but yet so close."

"This pandemic helped me realize how odd school actually was."

"It is rational and even important to have a healthy fear of people who did not listen when you say things, especially when it involves the words 'No' and 'Stop.'"

"So let's look beyond the snake, who was doing the action? Who was eliciting your fear?"

"Most of these aren't very reliable as sources. But as you can notice, there aren't any newspapers in the list."

"It's fascinating to read because it offers a look at how other people with those beliefs think."

"Jones. You know stopping cold turkey is a risk to the baby."

"Forget all that chance at life bullshit. I was convinced withdrawal might kill me."

"Emma, your grades during this unit have dropped. If you want to be in honors, you have to have at least a 99% in the fourth nine weeks."

"Something that I want you to remember is that anything you want to achieve as long as you put your mind to it, you can do it."

"That's a shame! Why would they fly a plane into that building?"

"And being on the Port Authority when I found out, there were people on that bus today that I still talk to -- just because we had a connection on a bus."

"I wiped the condensation on the window, squinted for a better look and I thought, this is going to end badly."

"And when we told our family and friends that we were moving to the Northside, we got a lot of questions."

"March 2020 COVID-19 hits the USA. I found myself on March the 13th at the bus stop all alone. No cars. No other people. No deer. No raccoon, no cats."

"We work seven days a week, 24 hours a day. It was just as eerie and scary downtown Pittsburgh. No traffic. No kids coming from school. People not hanging out at McDonald's or any of the fast food places. It was really unreal."

"And, you know, we take turns getting behind the steering wheel, you know, testing it out, see if we can drive and we knew what we were doing, we weren't really driving, we just was while it was parked"

"And and let me tell you now, I was at the age of 54 when I got this job. So I've been on with Port Authority for two years. And I'm truly grateful, because I didn't think you know, anything like this would happen to me."