Here are a few photos I took at the Pittsburgh Literacy AmeriCorps conference in early April in and around the city during our free time. (Except I did not take the one with me in it; Nick did.) Most of the time we were at seminars or at the service project at Highland Park, but I had some time on my own and took a few shots.
The top one is of nine from our group at the airport. Next is George Washington in his French and Indian War uniform. He was in a famous battle serving with British General Braddock near what became downtown Pittsburgh fighting the French and Indians. His experiences in that war helped him to beat the redcoats in the Revolutionary War. The other man in uniform is, of course, Franco Harris, running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers. These life-size statues are in the Pittsburgh airport.
The next photo looks like New Orleans; it is a riverboat on a river. But it is not a New Orleans boat and not the Mississippi River. It is a boat on the Monongahela River near our hotel.
The next fuzzy photo is of our group again at the airport ready to leave Pitttsburgh. We can even see half of Nick at the lefthand side, but Kim is missing in the photo, off to the right. The next photo is the little house at top of Mt. Washington where the gondola/incline goes. From that spot you can see the whole city. In the next photo the peach color building is our hotel on the Monongahela River. In the next photo are empty pizza boxes on the campus of the local University. We all had pizza after our service project in the snow at Highland Park. It was great! And don't worry, picked up after ourselves later and did not leave a mess.
The next two photos show some of Highland Park where we did our service project. As you can see, the hills are very steep. And there's lots of snow.
The last photo is where the Allegheney River meets the Monongahela, and they turn into the Ohio River which goes into the Mississippi and comes down to New Orleans. So, if we had a boat, we could get on it in Pittsburgh and wind up in the French Quarter in New Orleans. In the photo is also Heinz Stadium, which used to be Three Rivers Stadium.
-- Adrian
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