Now that Labor Day is upon us, the fall season is on our minds. Pittsburgh in the fall is a magical place. We put together seven reasons to get excited about autumn in the ‘burgh.
1. Those Friday Night Lights
We definitely give those Texans a run for their money with our intense love for high school football. When the season starts in early fall, we just can’t get enough!
2. Seasonal brews
After the long, hot summer fall beers return with a vengeance! Oktoberfest is celebrated at area restaurants like Hofbrauhaus, Penn Brewery and more.
3. The Pens return
After our whirlwind championship season, the whole city’s been itching to get back to work and see more Pens hockey. Come October, we’ll get to see our boys again.
4. The Steelers return
Will this be our year for the “Stairway to Heaven?” The anticipation is absolutely thrilling. Dust off your jersey and get it ready for the 2017-2018 season.
5. Phantom Fright Nights
Beginning September 29th, Kennywood will be celebrating its 15th year of the scary series. Zombies and scary monsters make a scary few weeks of fall fun around the famed amusement park.
6. Pumpkin patches, corn mazes, apple picking and haunted houses
Pittsburgh is in a great location in that it is in close proximity to multiple farms within a quick drive of the city. From apple picking, to pumpkin patches and more there’s fall fun for everyone in the area.
7. Working out in cooler weather again
There’s fall races galore in Pittsburgh, like the Pittsburgh Penguins 6.6K and the popular Donut Dash. After the humidity of the summer, it’s nice to get back to working out outside again.
FYI:
Charles Glen King of the University of Pittsburgh deserved the nobel prize.
But, he did not win it.
In 1932, Charles Glen King of the University of Pittsburgh in the U.S.A. reported success, and added that his crystals had all the properties reported by Szent-Györgyi for hexuronic acid. The latter had by now returned to Hungary and quickly confirmed the biological activity of his crystals. So, for four years, the vitamin had been isolated and to hand without Szent-Györgyi realizing what he had done. After multiple nominations, he received the Prize in 1937. It has been suggested that the citation was expanded to include more than just the isolation of vitamin C because of feeling in the U.S.A. that Charles Glen King deserved most of the credit for the isolation since “he knew what he was after.”