TY - SER KW - Italian Americans KW - World War I KW - steel industry KW - George McMurtry (1876-1958) KW - Frederick Law Olmstead (1822-1903) KW - Apollo Iron and Steel Works AU - Rennick Steele AB - Chronicles the founding of Vandergrift, Westmoreland County and the lives of Italian immigrant families there, the Cerasos and the Colecchis, through World War I. C1 - 1890s-1920s C3 - Westmoreland County; Vandergrift; E. Vandergrift. C4 - Historical; Labor; Immigrant; War CY - Tarentum, PA LA - English M3 - Playscript N1 - The play opened at the Freeport Theatre Festival in Allegheny Twp., Westmoreland County in July 2009. N2 - Chronicles the founding of Vandergrift, Westmoreland County and the lives of Italian immigrant families there, the Cerasos and the Colecchis, through World War I. PB - Word Association Publishers PP - Tarentum, PA PY - 2012 RN - Playwright John Rennick Steele (1948- ) graduated from Ohio State University and UCLA. He claims ancestry with Cherokee leader Nancy War and James Steel, a Revolutionary soldier and county ranger of Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland County. In 1989, he and his wife Marushka established the Freeport Theatre Festival in Allegheny Twp., Westmoreland County. EP - 183 p. TI - Cauldron of Steel ER -