https://travelingwithtwain.org/2011/11/20/pittsburgh-pa/a-long-drivebut-with-stops-for-an-old-friend-a-memorial-and-a-dying-industry-town/ In Search of America's Identity Sat, 19 Jan 2013 04:51:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.3 https://travelingwithtwain.org/2011/11/20/pittsburgh-pa/a-long-drivebut-with-stops-for-an-old-friend-a-memorial-and-a-dying-industry-town/#comment-677 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:43:12 +0000 http://www.travelingwithtwain.org/?p=1341#comment-677 I’m a classmate and friend of Jim’s from Westtown. Happily, I believe he’s found Westtown to be more of a continuing relationship than Haverford.
I share your (and readers’) dismay at the declining U.S. While PIttsburgh is still standing, others like Milwaukee (my hometown), Cleveland, and Detroit are sad cases. The U.S. places less value on its citizens than on the wealth of its “globalized” corporations.

]]> https://travelingwithtwain.org/2011/11/20/pittsburgh-pa/a-long-drivebut-with-stops-for-an-old-friend-a-memorial-and-a-dying-industry-town/#comment-641 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:47:27 +0000 http://www.travelingwithtwain.org/?p=1341#comment-641 Is this really, in all the cities you have visited, the first time you have seen this devastation?
What is your sense about the economics in America, so far?

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