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For Christmas I went to see my grandmother in Monongahela, PA. It’s one of many towns on the outskirts of Pittsburgh that once were home to tens-of thousands of workers who supplied steel for the nation and the world. Of course, all that has changed. Only a few mills remain. The smokestacks shown here are not of a steel mill but rather the West Penn Power Plant-this plant creates electricity by burning coal.
Monongahela is a word coined by the Delaware Indians that means something like: "Big flat river with high banks and bluffs that keep breaking off and falling down in random mudslides."