Conflict and Confluence
Fall Issue, 2012
We make our home in a city where social, cultural, and geographical forces intersect—Pittsburgh today is the crossroads of the East Coast and the Midwest, the meeting point of past industry and future technology, the urban epicenter of Appalachia, and the junction of three rivers. Our Fall Issue echoes this notion of coming together and moving apart, of conflict and confluence.
Pleasant Point on Merrymeeting Bay in the Brunswick Area near the Confluence of the Androscoggin and Kennebec Rivers 06/1973. Courtesy of US National Archives
Home on Leave
by Katey SchultzOne minute Bradley’s at the dinner table shoveling homemade rhubarb pie into his mouth and the next he’s tearing down the driveway in his Ford Ranger...
A Lesson in Containment
by Lindsey ScherloumIt was spring, 2001 and the wintered streets of New York crackled with unsettled whispers. Jeremy and I and eight strangers sat in a circle...
La Observadora
by Rodrigo ToscanoFeeling the initial jolts of an explosive, subterranean social transformation is something that she lives for especially...