Author of 'A Season on the Allegheny’ and new novel, ‘In Freedom’s Shadow,’ the Civil War tale of John Scobell, an escaped slave turned Union spy.
Oct 14, 2019 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
It’s hard for people who weren’t in western PA at that time to fully comprehend the despair that pervaded the region & conversely, the euphoria that came from our sports teams’ success. One could write an entire book on the subject, so I’ll never address it in a few characters.
One analog is the celebrated Super Bowl victory by the New Orleans Saints after Hurricane Katrina. I don’t want to minimize the physical & social damage caused by that disaster, but a key difference is that NOLA remained a tourist destination, a city with prospects to recover.
