The Battle of Homestead Foundation presented a book talk event "Beyond Steel" by local author Christopher Briem. He spoke about Pittsburgh and the Economics of Transformation. This event was held at the Pump House, Homestead, Pennsylvania on June 8, 2026.
James Hohman, a now-retired graphic artist from Pitt, and a two-decades member of the Battle of Homestead Foundation (BHF), filmed a myriad of BHF-connected site visits, historic marker celebrations, and expert interviews of little-known but significant moments in the region’s industrial history.
Examples:
*Historian Paul Laxton’s 2008 walking tour of Thomas Bell’s “Out of This Furnace”, Braddock, PA.
*Murals and commemoration (2010) of the incredible resistance of the townspeople of the Blair County town of Lilly, PA, in 1924, when a gang of Klan thugs opposing hiring of Catholics were thwarted and run out of town.
*Free Speech in Homestead celebrated in 2003 with a march to marker dedications for Mother Jones, Frances Perkins, and Fannie Sellins.