Tube City Almanac

November 17, 2009

Ask the Answer Man

Category: Events, Mon Valley Miscellany || By


Letters, we get letters ... Judith writes:
I have been on your website and you mention the Heritage Center and you give a telephone number, but as I live in England, that is not practical.

Does the Heritage Center have a website and email address that you could let me have?

Indeed they do, Judith. The Heritage Center's website is www.mckeesportheritage.org, and their email address is mckheritage@yahoo.com.

The Heritage Center can perform genealogy and other research tasks for people unable to make it to McKeesport. The cost is $15 per hour for non-members and $10 per hour for members, which includes the cost of photocopies and postage.

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Incidentally, the Heritage Center will wrap up its year-long celebration of the life of pioneering aviatrix Helen Richey with a graveside memorial service this Saturday.

The service will be held at McKeesport and Versailles Cemetery at 1:30 p.m. in honor of what would have been Richey's 100th birthday. In event of inclement weather, events will be moved to the cemetery's mausoleum.

Volunteers will be stationed at the cemetery's entrances to provide directions to the Richey family plot.

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Also on Saturday: McKeesport holds its annual "Salute to Santa" parade this Saturday, starting at 12 p.m. at the Palisades Ballroom and continuing east out Fifth Avenue.

This year's grand marshal is Cynthia M. Dorundo, president of UPMC McKeesport hospital, city officials said.

The parade, now in its 45th year, is traditionally among the largest in Western Pennsylvania. Last year, more than 150 bands, dance teams and floats participated.

Tube City Online has online galleries of the 2006 and 2008 parades.

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Reader TCH asks:
I was wondering if you would know where I could find information about a business that operated out of McKeesport around the 1920's called "Hartman's Drug Store" or "Hartman's Drug Company" located on or near "Fifth and Market Street." ?

Well, you could try contacting the Heritage Center, at the above address. Otherwise, I'm going to throw this question out to the audience. Chances are, someone out there knows!



(Disclaimer: The editor of Tube City Almanac is a member of the board of directors of McKeesport Heritage Center. However, opinions expressed at www.tubecityonline.com are not those of McKeesport Heritage Center, its board of directors, staff or members. So there.)






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