Georgia and I had a wonderful weekend in Pittsburgh visiting with Torey, Dick, Lauren and Jack. We had the opportunity to visit many districts of this vibrant, beautiful and interesting city. Only one down note-Notre Dame's football team was upset by the University of Pittsburgh on Saturday night. After licking our Panther wounds we resumed touring on Sunday, returning to Boston and Cohasset that evening.
![The great George Marshall, General of the Army, was from the Pittsburgh areaGeorge Catlett Marshall, Jr. GCB (December 31, 1880 – October 16, 1959), was an American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense. Once noted as the "organizer of victory" by Winston Churchill for his leadership of the Allied victory in World War II,[4] Marshall served as the United States Army Chief of Staff during the war and as the chief military adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.Marshall's name was given to the Marshall Plan, subsequent to a commencement address he presented as Secretary of State at Harvard University in the spring of 1947. The speech broadly outlined for Europeans to create their own plan for rebuilding Europe after WWII, funded by the United States. Marshall received the Nobel Peace Prize for the plan in 1953.](https://stored-cf.slickpic.com/Mzc5OTJhOTA2ZDFmMw,,/20131115/NjU5ODU5MzM2YTY,/pm/600/IMG_1633.jpg){kind=link}
![Forbes Avenue, the main artery through Pittsburgh's Oakland District.Oakland is the academic and healthcare center of Pittsburgh, one of the city's major cultural centers, and is Pennsylvania's third largest "Downtown". Only Center City Philadelphia and Downtown Pittsburgh can claim more economic and social activity than Oakland.[1] The neighborhood is urban and diverse and is home to several universities, museums, and hospitals, as well as an abundance of shopping, restaurants, and students. Oakland is home to the Schenley Farms National Historic District which encompasses two city designated historic districts: the mostly residential Schenley Farms Historic District and the predominantly institutional Oakland Civic Center Historic District.](https://stored-cf.slickpic.com/Mzc5OTJhOTA2ZDFmMw,,/20131115/NjU5NDU5MTlmYWE,/pm/600/101.jpg){kind=link}
![The Irish Room, one of 29 Nationality Rooms in Pitt's main building.The Nationality Rooms are a collection of 29 classrooms in the University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning depicting and donated by the ethnic groups that helped build the city of Pittsburgh. The rooms are designated as a Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation historical landmark and are located on the 1st and 3rd floors of the Cathedral of Learning, itself a national historic landmark,[4][5] on the University of Pittsburgh's main campus in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Although of museum caliber, twenty-seven of the 29 rooms are in almost constant use as functional classrooms and utilized daily by University of Pittsburgh faculty and students, while the other two (the Early American and Syrian-Lebanon) are display rooms which can be explored only via guided tour. The Nationality Rooms also serve in a vigorous program of intercultural involvement and exchange in which the original organizing committees for the individual rooms remain as participants and include](https://stored-cf.slickpic.com/Mzc5OTJhOTA2ZDFmMw,,/20131115/NjU5NzQ0MDAzMDY,/pm/600/IMG_1652.jpg){kind=link}
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