http://www.post-gazette.com/ Stories, chronicles and potpourri from readers and PG staff. Home of Random Acts of Kindness, The Morning File, Caption Contest, Raves, Word Watch and Storytelling, with new features added regularly. en-us Copyright 2011, post-gazette.com. Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:09:49 -0400 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11210/1163672-294-0.stm?cmpid=morningfile.xml It was 11 years ago last month that Mom passed away. Mary Jane (Cindrich) Schmalstieg was known to all as the South Side historian. If you ever needed to confirm a fact about the area, she was your "go to" person. Mom was born and raised on the South Side. Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:11:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11209/1163447-294-0.stm?cmpid=morningfile.xml I owe my life to three angels. I was in my car when a flash flood occurred this month on Washington Boulevard near Negley Run intersection. The water rose over my hood. I couldn't open the door but could open the window. Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:55:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11208/1163137-294-0.stm?cmpid=morningfile.xml The Horseshoe Court was the name the locals gave to a thumb-shaped, wooded ridge of land and the deep valley that surrounded it on three sides in Beaver County. Two neglected, spiked horseshoe pits, framed with railroad ties, marked the entrance to an enchanted world not far from then-bustling downtown Aliquippa. Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:49:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11207/1162921-294-0.stm?cmpid=morningfile.xml Neighbors across the street from the old German church on Rhine Street in Spring Hill say they have been watching the roof from their porches, wondering how it made it through another winter as it inched toward the cave-in Ted Foley so accurately predicted on Sunday. Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:32:00 -0400