Harrisburg State Hospital and the Question Nobody Answered
Harrisburg State Hospital, Pennsylvania's first public asylum, has been mostly torn down for a $450 million state lab complex—and taking a harder question with…
Dispatches from the road — personal essays, travel stories, and observations from two decades of exploring America's overlooked corners.
Harrisburg State Hospital, Pennsylvania's first public asylum, has been mostly torn down for a $450 million state lab complex—and taking a harder question with…
Weirton's 2024 shutdown was the final blow in a slow 60-year decline: how "mini" mills, legacy costs, and lost marketshare undid American blast furnace…
A century ago, a stretch of riverfront in Kenova, West Virginia was home to a revolving door of industry, a steel company that collapsed…
While traveling late at night to a campsite in rural northern West Virginia, I did a double-take when I passed what looked like an…
Explore the history of the Wheeling, West Virginia, iron and steel district, from its early nail mills to its long decline.
In 2016, I spent a day tracing the remnants of the former Wheeling Terminal Railway across the hills surrounding downtown Wheeling, West Virginia.
On a snow-covered winter afternoon in Washington County, Pennsylvania, I followed rural backroads to document a handful of historic landmarks.
A 19th-century pig iron blast furnace was more than a single stack: it was a carefully engineered industrial system built into the landscape itself.
Travel into the snowy hills of northern West Virginia to document early three charcoal iron furnaces.
Washington Mall in Pennsylvania, once a bustling shopping center, is being redeveloped into a new retail hub featuring Costco.
Nanty Glo, located in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, grew from a small lumber camp into one of America's prominent coal mining communities.
Perched atop Little Flat on Tussey Mountain in Rothrock State Forest, the Little Flat Lookout Tower stood as a sentry in Pennsylvania.