Pittsburgh Celebrates 250 (Post-Gazette & Tribune-Review)
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Pittsburgh Tribune-Review both reported on the many events happening to celebrate Pittsburgh 250 on October 4, 2008.
From the Post-Gazette:
Pittsburgh will mark its 250th birthday with a million-dollar celebration on Saturday.
The busiest weekend of the region’s year-long “sesquibicentennial” will begin with a more-than-100-vessel Three Rivers aquatic parade and end with the city’s largest-ever display of aerial pyrotechnics. “Imagine Pittsburgh” fireworks will be launched from 17 sites on the Three Rivers, the North Side and Downtown.
From the Tribune-Review:
Pittsburgh’s role in the growth of a nation began at what now is Point State Park, the same place its first strides into the future will be taken Saturday.
Pittsburgh Celebrates 250, a daylong festivity sponsored by the philanthropic Colcom Foundation, will begin at 9:30 a.m. with a parade of more than 100 boats and end at 10 p.m. with one of the city’s most favorite events, fireworks.
In between at the Downtown park, there will be concerts, various ceremonies and historic re-enactments of the time when the site was home to Fort Pitt and is predecessor, Fort Duquesne.
