Actually go and sit in the seat. It became apparent to me that when they called me from the bleachers to sit in the seat, it was behind the pole. People, onions, the that all of those things make our Historical Society important and viable are things that have one or two of. We have several of those. We take our philosophy from howard zinn. If anyone remember dr. Howard he has an approach to history where we do not look at it from the perspective of president s and a powerful industrialists. We look at it from the ordinary people who get up and work every single day. The theall yourself historical donora society we can count on someone going to falling water. They will get off route 70 and come down to cs because they had to see what a smog Museum Actually is. The story is not only of the 1948 smog but of the Industrial Community as well. Primary resource tells us where we are as far as how we put things together. We help students all over the world. Helped the young lady from shanghai
It was 75 years ago when a deadly smog settled over the Washington County mill town of Donora. Over five days — Oct. 27-31, 1948 — the heavy smog killed 20 people in Donora and in nearby Webster, across the Monongahela River. In the weeks that followed, the death toll
Seventy-five years ago this October, residents in the Mon River mill town of Donora noticed something wrong with the air, something different from the typical steel-industry smog that characterized the region at the time. The nearby U.S. Steel Donora Zinc Works had released two dangerous gases, hydrogen fluoride and sulfur