Paola Corso recalled a walk through her late father’s neighborhood in Brackenridge.
“Luckily, it was windy that day, and I spotted a pair of concrete steps under some leaves,” said Corso, a poet, photographer, literary activist and Harrison native. “I thought about the days my father and grandfather walked those steps.”
She wrote a poem about the journeys Mariano Corso and his father, Anthony Corso, took on those slabs of concrete to and from what was then known as Allegheny Ludlum’s Brackenridge Works.
The work begins “Snapshot of my father as a young man standing at the top of hillside steps wearing a double-breasted suit and tie, pants creased, shoes polished, his back to the steel mill in the valley behind him, his back to the jackhammer he used to drill. …”