Rain was threatening at Mill Run on Oct. 29, 1963, and its sound would have created a kind of chorus with the waterfall nearby. A tent was set up in case Gov. William Scranton and other dignitaries needed to escape an autumn downpour. With no way of imagining the horror that would unfold in ...

The greatest living architect poured scorn on the idea. Frank Lloyd Wright, famous in these parts (and elsewhere for that matter) for Fallingwater, his iconoclastic residential design set off in the woods of Fayette County, criticized the notion of saving the Pittsburgh "Triangle," as he put ...