New World Record Attempt, Zombies at Monroeville Mall

The Undead Walking The Mall

Zombies, Monroeville Mall

Today was special as we attempted to break our Guinness World Record, “most zombies walking in one place” that we set last year with 1100 zombies, which broke the previous year. We did it with over 1400 zombie participants walking the halls of the mall. Pittsburghers take pride in the fact that the original movie, “Dawn of the Dead” was primarily filmed at Monroeville Mall. I take this serious since I was one of the original zombies in that picture. Cites worldwide were also attempting to break our record from last year as well, from NYC to Hong Kong. We here in western Pennsylvania represented well for all of our people here. The zombies ranged from 2 years old, to an older woman in her 80s.

REMEMBER, you can click on the images to enlarge. ALSO, there is now a pin-up girl on the bottom of this first page, AKA World War Two style in morale boosting. I am aware that such is more suitable for the male members of the armed services, but no one is perfect.

We broke last year's Guinness World Record with 1400 zombies today!

'The Undead' women shoppers doing what they did on better days!

A bunch of Zombies

The 'ugly ones'

1400 Zombies making their way through Monroeville Mall
in Monroeville Pennsylvania

World Record Banner held by 'Wreckin' Rachel'

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Sports Update:

Steelers played the Super Bowl Champs, the New York Giants today.
The weather sure was nice!

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Keep your head down,

Henry Hill, Plum Pennsylvania

Birthday boy in Pennsylvania

Due to this being my birthday, my weekly column is short and early. Instead of a lot of words, I have included a few photos that I shot yesterday down in Greene County.

May 1916 American Locomotive Works, the Cook Works.
This narrow gauge ran between Washington and Waynesburg, Pa

W & W Railroad

Business sign in Uniontown Pa

Tree Sculpture

This work of art was cut out of a once live tree still located on the owner's property

DON'T FORGET TO VOTE ON THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE!


Keep your head down,

Henry Hill, Plum Pennsylvania

Gold Star Mothers Memorial

This weekend was extremely busy back home. There were festivals all over the countryside for all cultures and tastes. The rest of the month is no different.

I found this crew of young ROTC members from Valley High School in New Kensington Pennsylvania. They were working on a perfect day for doing leisure activities, and the work they were doing was dedicated to veterans. The Gold Star Mothers Memorial in New Kensington was a little tattered from weather, age, and other forms of deterioration. Their age ranged from 14 to 16 years old. They did a great job restoring the memorial to a level of respectability that is worthy of it's original designers.

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(Crew Members, from left to right.

First row: Hanna Miller

Second row: Mark Akcyn, Leeanna Domanski, Allison Hamilton, Nathanial Quevedo, Rebecca McGowan,

Back Row: Logan Bryant, Kevin Miller ... Hanna Miller's father)

My mode of conveyance on most of my assignments

Click on the images to enlarge

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Sports Update:

The steelers have this week off, which is perfect timing to heal those many injuries and banged up players.

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Keep your head down,

Henry Hill, Plum Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh's 250th Birthday ... and more

A girl playing the violin ... she is part of the George Washington encampment reenactment.

GEORGE WASHINGTON ENCAMPMENT REENACTMENT:

Dr. Kinorea "Two Feather" Tigri

In conjunction with all the other activities going on for the 250th Birthday of Pittsburgh, a reenactment of George Washington's encampment in the area of Boyce Park Pennsylvania during the French & Indian War took place over the weekend. The two day event had large crowds on both days, to include the Boy Scouts and others. The participants slept in authentic tents and used the proper period accouterments over their two day stay.

A live fire (using blanks) reenactment of the battle took place on both days. Educators were on hand at the many locations in the park to teach the visitors the way of life at that time. Dr. Kinorea "Two Feather" Tigri gave a great presentation on local Native Americans. It was an excellent program that enlightened many, especially the youth, of how life was during our country's beginning.

I visited the encampments on Saturday. CLICK ON IT TO ENLARGE ANY IMAGE IN THE COLUMN.

A boy scout learning the finer points of a British musket
George Washington

A family in authentic period dress

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PITTSBURGH'S 250TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION:

October 4, 2008

The day was filled with more events than I have room here tonight. The rivers were filled with boats to include the "Delta Queen" river boat that traveled up the Mississippi and the Ohio Rivers to get here. The birthday celebration ended with concerts in Point State Park all evening, then a fireworks display that was supposed to be the largest one ever in this area, and most likely the world! It was everything that was promised and more...

To give it scale think about this. The July 4 display here in Pittsburgh (Home of the World's best fireworks) was dazzling with only 4000 rockets going off, but this one shot off 28,000 rockets! I was at the park in the point (where the confluence of all three rivers meet at old Fort Pitt), which put me dead center in this massive rocket attack. The fireworks were shot from 14 locations throughout the area simultaneously, totally surrounding the downtown area and the thousands of fans therein. The rockets were shot off from the building tops, five barges located in all three rivers, from the perimeter of the Point Park, and also from two bridges! It was wild, loud, and proud...

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The Delmont Apple 'N Art Festival:

This annual event that takes place in Delmont Pennsylvania is a combination Apple festival and Art/Crafts Festival. The farm where the event is located is divided into two sides ... art and down-home country Americana. It is a two day event over the weekend. I went today--Sunday--and shot the images below that tell a story of a very small slice of the overall day.

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An original steam engine with the steam whistle screaming like a banshee!

Tractor pull in progress

The art and craft side of the festival

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SPORTS UPDATE: Pittsburgh Steelers 26, Jacksonville 20!

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Keep your head down,

Henry Hill, Plum Pennsylvania