2006 Pump House Lecture Series
Saturdays from 1:30-3:00 PM– unless otherwise noted
speakers / programs

April 28

Workers Memorial Day, Market Square with speakers: Ed Yankovich & Nick Molnar, UMWA

 

The Battle of Homestead Foundation has been programming events, speakers and art shows at the Pump House since 1996. Due to the lack of electricity, heat or sanitary facilities, the programming has been restricted to the warm weather months, from April through October.

The Foundation has acquired a generator to facilitate presentations, although night time events are still restricted due to safety concerns.

More than 2,000 attended some 18 separate events during the 2002 year at the Pump House. They included tours, scholarship classes, visiting delegations and various speakers and panels as part of the Pump House Lecture Series.

Many of the events were accompanied by film, overhead visuals and slides as well as poster sessions.

Schedules of previous years' events:

  • 2005 Pump House Lecture Series
  • 2004 Pump House Lecture Series
  • 2003 Pump House Lecture Series
  • 2002 Pump House Lecture Series
  • 2001 Pump House Lecture Series
  • 2000 Pump House Lecture Series
  • 1999 Pump House Lecture Series
  • 1998 Pump House Lecture Series
April 29 Sago Mine: would a union make a difference? at the Pump House with speakers Ed Yankovich, Ron Bowersox from the UMWA and Chris Potter, Pittsburgh City Paper
May 27 Jim Hartman speaking on postcards from Homestead
June Program still being developed
June Program still being developed
June Program still being developed
July 8

1892 Strike Anniversary
Program still being developed
July Program still being developed
July Program still being developed
August 19 Program still being developed
August Program still being developed
September 3 Program still being developed
September 17 Program still being developed
October Pennsylvania Labor History Conference
October 7 Poetry at the Pump House
October 21 Program still being developed