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In late October 1948, a seemingly average fog descended on the town of Donora. Unbeknown to the borough’s 14,000 residents at the time, the town was enveloped in a deadly
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
Hepps’s research begins in 1881 with the arrival of Homestead’s first Jewish family. She is a descendant of some of Homestead’s earliest Jewish residents, a fact that inspired her research into the community’s Jewish past.