Fairview Park a park built out of necessity due to Pittsburgh regions shameful past

As you ride down the old section of US-22 William Penn Highway  near Salem Twp Pa you come across a beautiful meadow and pleasant little park known as Fairview Park a neat little country park  out in the country but one built not out of enjoying the country side but of necessity you see this park was built by African Americans  after it was  clear to them they where not welcome in the many amusement type parks of the time period Like Kennywood,due to Jim Crow era rules .

http://www.post-gazette.com/local/east/2011/02/24/Fairview-Park-in-Delmont-gains-national-historic-status/stories/201102240256

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairview_Park_(Westmoreland_County,_Pennsylvania)

In fact for years there has been rumors unsubstantiated  and denied by Kennywood that they deliberately closed and filled in there pool after African Americans where allowed to swim in it. 

the truth many pools like Blue Dell and Glen Burke where getting old and leaking and cost to keep them maintained was more than income coming in so they closed as land became more valuable . 

But the fact such a park would even need to be built is a sad chapter in  our areas history,

 

2 Supper Clubs named Beverly Hills both had fires in 70's One in Pa one in KY One accidental the other most likely Arson and 169 lives lost but people often get there locations and facts mixed up.

Yes 40 years ago a horrifying fire destroyed the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Kentucky at first thought an accident but now many believe it was arson which killed a 169 people

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2017/05/24/what-remains-fire-and-40-years/329254001/

But this happened in Kentucky not Pennsylvania

So why does everyone get confused about this fire it is because  a fire  happen overnight at The Beverly Hills Hotel along Evergreen Road  in Ross twp  in 1975 and no one was hurt or died. 

Yes it was a big fire and made the news but it has nothing to do with the Kentucky fire but people get confused about it all the time. 

http://old.post-gazette.com/neigh_north/20020102ncover0102p2.asp

 In fact the hotel stayed in operation until early 80s when it was abandoned  and sat empty and derelict till Allegheny city electric bought it and fixed it up.  

Perhaps the old derelict Beverly hills hotel sign which sat on babacock Blvd. helped cause the confusion along with part of the burned out building .

A Horrific Final Insult to the family's of those who commit Suicide and are of the Catholic Faith a very Dark Matter

Yes a classmate  I went to  St Basils Grade School with a couple years ahead of me and a successful businessman committed suicide  for reasons unknown to myself and the community. But how did we know he committed suicide when it was not mentioned in his obituary?

Because instead of having his burial mass thru St Basils Parrish where he attended all those years he was buried thru St Paul's Monastery in Pittsburgh's South side which was mentioned in his obit.  Why? and what would this have to do with suicide .

http://www.stpaulofthecrossmonastery.com/

https://www.catholicireland.net/preparing-liturgies-for-victims-of-suicide/

 

 


When your catholic or orthodox and you commit suicide it is seen as a mortal sin you are not allowed a traditional catholic mass at church you attend and are not allowed to be buried in a catholic cemetery this was the rule up until late 80's until views started to change with an understanding of mental illness. . Yes horrific as this sounds I just went thru this with a customer and friend who was Orthodox Christian and committed suicide after suffering years of horrific pain and his family had to get a letter from his personal physician stating the fact he was in such physical and emotional pain so that he could be buried with his parents at the orthodox cemetery after the local bishop took the letter into consideration and allowed it.

http://www.catholiceducation.org/en/culture/catholic-contributions/the-sin-of-suicide.html

http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2014/10/22/can_catholics_who_commit_suicide_be_given_a_church_burial/1109137

However with this easing of restrictions  over time with suicide which allows burial in a cemetery and some times a mass in home church many funerals are still conducted at St Paul's Monastery. 

While the  Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches may see this as a sin and as a way to discourage  suicides just who are they to judge the person who commits suicide ?Its gods job to judge not the churches . Often like in my friends case they are in such horrifying pain and emotional distress they are out of their own control and relief from what they are suffering is all they crave . Yes its insensitive of them for what they put their family's and friends thru but until you have walked in there shoes there is no understanding.

This is just one of many case where the church hurts those it supposedly trys to help. My great Grandfather and Great Grandmother are buried in separate cemetery because he was not catholic
just one of the many insults to human dignity faith brings with it.  .