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The Donora Historical Society and Smog Museum announced the following:

The Dragon Tee

 New Donora Dragons Short and Long Sleeved Tees and Sweatshirts

 Around 1920, Donora adopted the dragon as our official mascot. Over the years, the dragon has been portrayed in every design imaginable on clothing, yearbooks, pennants, cups, etc. As we close in on a century of honoring the dragon, we decided to modernize the dragon design and portray it on our freshly minted T-shirts and sweatshirts, thanks to two artists with Donora roots: Jesse Francis and Jared Altamare. And the T-shirts are printed in Donora thanks to Armand Forlini of UniTee Productions, making this a total Donora team effort – For Donora, By Donora!

Our previously released black Donora Dragon T-shirts with orange and white ink proved to be so popular, we expanded our offering to long sleeved T-shirts, as well as crewneck sweatshirts in sizes M, L, XL, 2X and 3X. Short sleeve T-shirts are also available in size S. Quantities are limited in an attempt to best determine what sizes and styles are in demand. We also have a few hoodies in size L.

The shirts are for sale at the Smog Museum and Donora Library: $20/short-sleeved tees, $25/long sleeved tees, $30/sweatshirts, and $35/hoodies on Saturdays at the Museum from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and at the Library Monday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. You can also order using the email address or phone number below. Shirts sent by mail will require additional S&H. If your size is sold out, please consider being put on a waiting list for the next print order.

Cement City at the University of Pittsburgh

The Donora Historical Society has been a member of the Senator John Heinz History Center (HHC) Affiliate Program since 2013. We are one of over 400 historically-minded member organizations (affiliates) throughout Western Pennsylvania (as far east as Bedford and as far north as Erie), the panhandle of Western Virginia and Eastern Ohio. Since that time, we’ve worked with HHC on numerous projects, all of which are detailed on our website on the “About Us” page.

Recently, we were one of only ten historical sites chosen, out of the over 400 HHC Affiliates, to help teach during the inaugural HHC sponsored Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s (OLLI) program at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) that was held in March and April 2018. The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute aspires to create a dedicated intellectual environment for older adult students, nurturing a lifelong passion for learning by attending university classes. Pitt and CMU are two of 118 OLLIs located on college campuses throughout the United States.

The sold out five week HHC-Osher class offered at both Pitt and CMU was titled “History 412: Discover the Sites and Stories That Make Our Region Unique.” Each week a new HHC Affiliate historic site taught that evening’s class at either Pitt or CMU. The Donora Historical Society taught the final Pitt-Osher session class on April 11, 2018 on the Pitt campus in Oakland and that evening’s session was titled, "Thomas Edison’s Concrete Vision: Building Cement City, Donora, Pennsylvania, 1916-17,” a subject near and dear to our hearts about Donora’s National Historic District.

Additional Info

If you have additional questions about the subjects mentioned above, the historical society, museum, presentations or interest in volunteering, feel free to stop by on Saturdays or by special appointment (with at least a week’s notice), email us at DonoraHistoricalSociety@gmail.com, call us at 724-823-0364 and leave a message, visit us on the web at www.DonoraHistoricalSociety.org, or follow us and like us on Facebook at “Donora Historical Society and Smog Museum.”

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