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I only met my husband’s grandfather a few times; he died at age 92, shortly after my husband and I were married in 1988. However, I think of Lee Dittley often, when I look at his charming paintings of the South Side of Pittsburgh. With only a ninth-grade education, he went from working in …

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Food & Wine

Someone Else’s Bar

by Joseph Sabino Mistick

When Else Franzmann is asked where she is from, she is quick to say, “I’m from everywhere and nowhere. I never really had a hometown.” Else lived in five different places before she was 10, her family never sinking roots. After her first job, she moved seven times in 10 years. Later, she started tending …

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