TY - SER
KW - Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919)
KW - Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)
KW - Clara Barton (1821-1912)
KW - American Red Cross
KW - Knights of Labor
KW - attorneys
KW - trade unions
KW - journalists
KW - Johnstown Flood of 1889
KW - Andrew Mellon (1855-1937)
KW - steel industry
AU - Kathleen George
AB - A century after the Johnstown Flood of 1889, two <em>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</em> reporters interview a 103-year-old Ellen Emerson, the great flood’s last survivor. Ellen insists her twin sister Mary, who went missing in the disaster, is still alive. One of the reporters, Nina Collins, pledges to help Ellen find her missing half.
C1 - 1889-1989
C3 - Allegheny County; Homestead; Braddock; Pittsburgh; Point Breeze; Clayton; Downtown; W. Mifflin; Kennywood Park; Cambria County; Lake Conemaugh; Little Conemaugh River; Johnstown; E. Conemaugh; South Fork; Adams Twp.; South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club; C
C4 - Historical; Disaster; Psychological; Women’s
CY - Pittsburgh
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - A century after the Johnstown Flood of 1889, two <em>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</em> reporters interview a 103-year-old Ellen Emerson, the great flood’s last survivor. Ellen insists her twin sister Mary, who went missing in the disaster, is still alive. One of the reporters, Nina Collins, pledges to help Ellen find her missing half.
PB - University of Pittsburgh Press
PP - Pittsburgh
PY - 2014
RN - Kathleen George (1943— ), born and raised in Johnstown, Cambria County, is professor of theater arts and creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the widow of the late novelist Hilary Masters. She lives in Pittsburgh's Mexican War Streets.
EP - 352 p.
TI - The Johnstown Girls
ER -