Bernard Goldstein, M.D., is a professor and former dean of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. Before he moved to Pittsburgh (my fair city), he founded and directed the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute in Piscataway, NJ, the largest academic environmental and occupational health program in the U.S. While living in the Garden State, he hung his hat in an 1870s home, and spent his days sleuthing out environmental ...

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I wish that I had more energy. This has been a tough winter for my old farmhouse. I have complained about the lack of snow the last five winters, it seemed like winters were getting milder and milder in my area, and we never had decent snows anymore. Well, evidently someone was listening, and this year made up for all the snow we hadn't been getting. I have enjoyed it--walking ...

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I enjoy old houses because of their architecture and character, but I also enjoy them because of their stories. When I walk through an old house, I often wish the walls could talk and tell the stories of the families that lived there over the years. I find that I am fascinated by this, perhaps because I am a bit of a history buff, and I live in an area ...

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