Down the Ohio on Route 65, through Sewickley and the steel towns. Tap a numbered dot and listen.
Narrated by The ChroniclerFocus: Steel-Town Sports Lore47 km · about 44 min · 8 stories
The stories
In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Birth of Pittsburgh Baseball
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Rise of the Steel Curtain Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3
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Emsworth, Pennsylvania
The Rise of the Steel Curtain Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3
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Sewickley, Pennsylvania
The Rise of the Steel Curtain Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3
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Edgeworth, Pennsylvania
The Polio Vaccine Trials
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Baden, Pennsylvania
The Aliquippa Works
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Freedom, Pennsylvania
The Life of Dominic DeNucci
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New Brighton, Pennsylvania
The WPIAL and Valley Grit
Where the stories come from
Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.