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David Poecking's avatar

I was the pastor in Carnegie for nine years. The Pittsburgh Post Gazette recently published a long article on the adventures there: https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/insight/2023/08/06/ku-klux-klan-carnegie-riot/stories/202307230025

But the town's history is full of marvelous anecdotes of plucky Catholic immigrants surviving grief inflicted on them by hostile Protestants, and then by inter-Catholic rivalries.

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Sue Korlan's avatar

The story about the KKK put me in mind of their little invasion of South Bend. The students of Notre Dame took them out.

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