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To mark Teacher Appreciation Week, which starts Monday, the Senator John Heinz History Center and its family of museums will offer free admission for teachers and educators during the month of May.
All educators, including grades K-12 and college, with a valid teacher ID are eligible to receive free admission to the Heinz History Center, Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum, Fort Pitt Museum, and Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village.
Free admission includes access to the History Center exhibit, âAmerican Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith,â developed in partnership with the Smithsonianâs National Museum of American History.
For information or tickets, go online to www.heinzhistorycenter.org/tickets.
From staff reports
PITTSBURGH In recognition of Autism Awareness Month, the Senator John Heinz History Center and Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum will host its first Sensory Friendly Days on April 18 and April 19.
Sensory Friendly Days, presented by Dick’s Sporting Goods, will offer individuals of all ages with autism spectrum disorders or sensory processing differences the opportunity to experience “the Smithsonian’s home in Pittsburgh” in a comfortable and welcoming environment. The center is committed to providing an inclusive environment for all visitors.
In partnership with Autism Connections of Pennsylvania and additional leaders in the region’s autism community, the center has identified and implemented modifications to support a more sensory-friendly experience, including but not limited to, mitigation of sudden/loud sounds and motions, lighting adjustments, designated break and rest spaces and family restrooms and increased directional signage throughou
King of Sluggers: Josh Gibson’s Legacy
A century has passed since the founding of the Negro Leagues, and the great-grandson of the game’s most feared yet forgotten hitter is fighting for the recognition of Pittsburgh’s Black baseball history.
November 11, 2020
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY CHUCK BEARD
He has a set of hands that could wrap around the trunk of a Southern Live Oak the state tree of his native Georgia and a pair of forearms that could snap one in half.
It’s sometime in the 1930s in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh when he steps up to the plate and bashes a baseball that clears the ivy-veiled outfield walls of Forbes Field and soars into oblivion. The following day his Pittsburgh Crawfords are playing in Philadelphia, and from out of nowhere, a baseball falls from the heavens and lands into the glove of a surprised center fielder. The umpire points to the twenty-something kid named Josh Gibson and shouts, Yer out yesterday in Pittsburgh.