Happy 250th, Pittsburgh!

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At the "Birthday Blow-out" bash for Pittsburgh's 250th year Saturday in Point State Park, 76-year-old Frank Schiller had a simple message for Pittsburghers: Go ... do ... now.

Almost 250 years after Gen. John Forbes arrived at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers and christened the place Pittsburgh, Schiller and his wife, Anastasia, couldn't imagine living anywhere else. Kayak on the rivers? The Schillers have done it. Come Downtown to the Cultural District for a musical? Better believe it, they said.

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Happy 250th, Pittsburgh!

"We get out and do things," said Anastasia Schiller, 75, of Wilkins Township.

And they weren't about to sit at home to celebrate the city's birthday.

Pittsburgh celebrated its past yesterday w...

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