#KeystoneState: Once burgeoning Aliquippa Pennsylvania endures decades of the Rust Belt decades. SalenaZio.com
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#KeystoneState: Once burgeoning Aliquippa Pennsylvania endures decades of the Rust Belt decades. SalenaZio.com
https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/insight/2022/12/25/aliquippa-football-state-championship-mike-warfield/stories/202212250027?cid=search
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| 0:39.5 | Selena Zito takes us to Al Equipa, Pennsylvania, writing for the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. She |
| 0:45.1 | also writes for the Washington Examiner and the New York Post. Al Equipa, Pennsylvania, |
| 0:50.4 | named were told for a princess of the Iroquois, although that is probably a construction that |
| 0:56.4 | came in the 20th century. However, this is in reading about Al Equipa, an archaeological |
| 1:03.1 | essay on the American growth story since the 18th century. The Native American, the Indian |
| 1:10.5 | fighting and then the logging. It was called Logs Run at first because there was a creek |
| 1:16.2 | there. They took the big trees down to the Ohio River Valley River and then floated |
| 1:21.2 | them to who was ever building. Then in the 20th century, I learned thanks to Selena. It |
| 1:27.1 | comes to the industrial age where the people from the refugees, the settlers, the immigrants |
| 1:34.6 | from Eastern Europe were gathered together in a company town. First it was steel and then |
| 1:39.6 | it was steel and then it was big steel and then steel went away. That's where we are |
| 1:43.9 | right now. Selena, Al Equipa, Pennsylvania. It's north west of Pittsburgh. I'm guessing |
| 1:50.9 | north west of Pittsburgh on the Ohio River Valley. What does it look like today with a reduced |
| 1:56.0 | population from the 20th century? Good evening to you. Good evening. Thanks so much for having |
| 2:00.6 | me on the Al Equipa. I've always had a soft sport in my heart for Al Equipa because these |
| 2:07.7 | are the people that built America. These are the people that built the roads and the bridges. |
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