Last week Ginny and I went to visit our good friends Greg and Susan Schmidt in Pittsburgh. We had a lot of fun. On Saturday, after breakfasting at the crowded, somewhat disorienting Oakmont bakery, we went to the campuses of the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon. We saw the iconic Panther statue, the iconic Cathedral of
Knowledge, and the iconic remnants of Forbes Field, where Bill Mazeroski hit his iconic home run in the 1960 World Series. After lunch, we toured the home of the robber baron, union buster, 
assassination attempt survivor and art benefactor Henry Clay Frick. It was interesting to contrast the luxury in which he lived with the shabby homes and pollution with which his workers and their families endured. On Sunday, before watching the Eagles cream the Chiefs, we toured the Strip, where we saw many Steelers shirts, and where I ran into my former Time magazine colleague Joe Zeff (or at least a reasonable facsimile thereof.)
