The Underground Railroad

In homage to Black History Month, the Bridgeville Area Historical Society welcomed retired Mt. Lebanon High School history teacher Pete DiNardo last Sunday to discuss “Underground Railroads – Myths and Realities”. Mr. DiNardo graduated from Georgetown University in 1987 with a major in History, then earned a Master’s in History at Pitt. He recently retired after 27 years of teaching at Mt. Lebanon High School. His knowledge of African-American history is impressive, as are his skills as a communicator. His primary message was that our conventional ideas about the Underground Railroad are probably incorrect. Rather than being a massive, well-conceived network…